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  • Banks will have an extra year to comply with the latest set of bank capital rules, with the Basel Committee telling the industry on Friday to focus on responding to the coronavirus pandemic instead.
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  • GlobalCapital may not have been able to celebrate its Equity Capital Markets Awards in person with the winners this year but we are no less delighted to be able to reveal who they are and those winners are no less deserving for it. We fully intend that the dinner will return next year but for the meantime, here are some of the highlights from this year’s crop. Our congratulations to all.
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  • Rating: Aa1/AA+/AA+
  • Despite a late rally in emerging market assets this week, which even included a three times oversubscribed issue from Panama, the risk of sovereign bond defaults is still hanging over the asset class.
  • The Covid-19 pandemic is forcing many of Europe's sovereigns to expand their borrowing programmes. This week's funding scorecard looks at the changes European sovereigns have made to respond to the crisis, and the progress they have made in their funding programmes as we approach the end of the first quarter.
  • US and European stocks rallied this week, recovering some of the losses suffered during the worst equity market sell-off since the 2008 financial crisis, but investors are not ready to pile back into the market yet, fearful of the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus in the United States.
  • Toronto Dominion Bank attracted a slightly larger order book for its three year dollar covered bond on Friday than Bank of Nova Scotia did for a similar deal issued on Wednesday. Both deals offered a considerable pick-up to where they would have been expected to be priced in euros, but the overall spread outlook remains a subject for hot debate. At the same time on Friday, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce was set to issue a ‘blow out’ three year Swiss franc deal.
  • The euphoria that infused Europe’s corporate bond market from Tuesday to Thursday has cooled somewhat, although investors are still open for business. Bankers had said on Thursday that Friday would bring an interesting crop of deals, but there is only one, for paper company Mondi, rated Baa1/BBB+.
  • Some investors are moving cash out of the sovereign, supranational and agency bond sector and looking to deploy resources in high grade corporate credit, thanks to improved valuations in that sector and the threat coronavirus poses to sovereign debt sustainability.
  • Rating agencies are starting to feed through the impact of coronavirus into their ratings, starting a wave of downgrades which could push several large issuers out of investment grade territory, where they are eligible for central bank backing, into high yield, where no such support exists.