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  • UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak did not change the lending levels for local authorities in his Spring Budget — apart from cuts to borrowing costs for social housing projects — keeping alive the prospect of capital markets providing UK councils with a cheaper financing alternative.
  • DZ Bank is creating a tool that will automate the process of scoring investors based on their commitment to environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies for preferential treatment in the allocation of socially responsible bonds.
  • These are troubling times. Covid-19 case numbers are jumping every day, more countries are being added to travel ban lists, and the virus outbreak is now officially a pandemic. But some bankers are still finding the positives in all the chaos.
  • Members of the European Banking Federation have called on supervisory authorities for help through the ‘temporary struggle’ of the Covid-19 pandemic, asking them for looser capital and liquidity requirements and special treatment of lending impacted by the virus.
  • As the coronavirus advances deeper into the US and northern Europe, capital markets have had one of their most shocking and arduous weeks for many years.
  • NMC Health, the scandal-hit UAE-based hospitals operator, has $2.7bn in undisclosed debt, taking its total gross debt to around $5bn, and an investigation into its finances has found evidence of serious fraud.
  • The coronavirus will depress mergers and acquisitions activity, hurt advisory revenues and change the emphasis of deal-making in 2020, writes David Rothnie.
  • President Lenin Moreno’s announcement of austerity measures that could raise $2.25bn, as well as the possibility of cheaper bank loans, was not enough to stop Ecuador’s bonds plunging towards the 40 mark as oil prices fell further on Wednesday. But the sovereign is expected to make a $350m coupon payment on March 24 and some are seeing signs of encouragement in the government’s reaction.
  • The 30% drop in the price of crude oil as Saudi Arabia kicked off a price war this week is causing anxiety in the CLO market and a flashback to the oil plunge of 2016, though data shows that the sector is far less exposed than during past crises.
  • Small business ABS lenders should reconsider bringing deals to market and expect to see disruption of cashflows to outstanding deals, with Covid-19 now declared a worldwide pandemic.
  • Liquidity in corporate, financial and emerging market bonds has certainly been affected by the recent stress caused by the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. But there has not been a catastrophic collapse. Participants say markets are still functioning, and some means of trading have benefited.
  • The UK has pledged £30bn ($37.62bn) of stimulus to cushion the coronavirus pandemic’s economic impact, and now the Debt Management Office’s remit is expected to be £40bn higher than last year. But the Budget, delivered by UK chancellor Rishi Sunak on Wednesday, seemed to have little effect on Gilt yields, despite rising on the day.