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Reforms should focus on banks' access to liquidity, not capital
Conditions support capital issuance, even though European Commission's report gave no clarity on the future of AT1s
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A possible delay to the final retirement of Libor as the benchmark lending rate on dollar loans is set to offer banks and borrowers a bit more breathing room to make the transition. But in Asia, loan market participants have largely shrugged at news, deciding to press ahead with their plans for a post-Libor world. -
Changes to the Volcker rule allowing US CLOs to hold bonds as well as loans ought to survive the shift to a new administration, but market participants will be counting the days and hoping the changes, enacted at the beginning of October, aren’t caught up in a Congressional review.
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Covid-19 has transformed the secondary market in securitization in various ways — from forcing the market to take trading online to shifting the peak trading hours. Panellists at ABS East this week said the changes enacted during the spring sell-offs are here to stay, and traders have already begun to adapt to the new normal.
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The newest recruit to the ranks of large supranational issuers is also the bulkiest. Responding to Covid-19, the EU has created the €100bn SURE fund, active already, and a €750bn Next Gen EU programme, coming next year. Both are bond-financed, requiring a huge increase in the EU’s until now modest issuance, especially in the next two or three years.
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Institutional investors are on the verge of a huge opportunity in private debt, as assets migrate out of the banking system, according to Thierry Adant, who joined Newmarket Capital this week as its chief investment officer.
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PGIM has hired Steve Logan as a senior portfolio manager in its European leveraged finance operations.
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