Pre-migration untagged articles
-
The European CDS market is repricing on a large scale as new bonds are printed cheaply and this will continue apace in 2008, dealers in London predicted this week.
-
The UK’s Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has joined the line of supplicants at the Bank of England’s door, asking for assistance in funding £90bn of net mortgage lending next year. However, the UK’s Financial Service Authority (FSA) warned that lenders may have to sacrifice growth for liquidity.
-
The Dutch Ministry of Finance has begun a consultation on a covered bond decree, which it hopes will come into effect on July 1, 2008. While the move has been generally welcomed by Dutch banks, it is unclear whether all issuers will reap equal rewards from the new framework. Consultation on the draft began on November 23 and will conclude on December 21.
-
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development achieved its latest first this week, issuing the first ever rouble denominated bond in global format.
-
Never let it be said that EuroWeek doesn’t occasionally receive information which is almost on a par with the very tired carrier pigeon that supposedly brought the result of the Battle of Waterloo to Nathan Meyer Rothschild.