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  • Any doubts about the long term commitment of the Labour government to eventual adoption by the UK of the single European currency were dispelled towards the end of February.
  • The bond market for French local authorities is either one of the principal growth areas in the European municipal market or it is stuck in an impasse in which recent volumes have flattered to deceive. CDC Marchés - which stopped straight lending to French local authorities following the privatisation of Crédit Local de France - is firmly in the camp of the optimists.
  • If federalism means diversity, then this equation is more then proven by Germany's Länder, who continue to disagree about their approach to international capital markets.
  • The sector was one of the first to recover from the financial turmoil last year and issuance has been coming from a wide variety of sources -- with borrowers taking advantage of the lack of government bond supply, and the broadening of the investor base, to launch ever larger deals.
  • The European high yield debt market has yet to recover from the sharp falls suffered in last autumn's turmoil. But there are plenty of deals in the pipeline.
  • Leading UK fund managers are rushing to put together high yield funds, believing that the asset class offers a highly attractive risk-return profile. And new investors are coming into the market all the time, from both sides of the Atlantic.
  • Nordic municipal borrowers are no newcomers to the international capital market. Gothenburg, for example, was the first Swedish borrower to tap the Samurai market as far back as 1983, since when, according to Inger Lundin, first financial officer at the City of Gothenburg, about 70% of the municipality's borrowing has been in international markets with only the remaining 30% generated locally.
  • The government appears to have decided that bond financing is more cost-effective than bank debt -- where most of the projects have been funded to date -- and is encouraging bidders to include capital market deals in their proposals.
  • The birth of the euro has provided a powerful new boost for the already buoyant European equity-linked debt market, which is enjoying unprecedented growth and development.
  • Banks were falling over themselves to win equity new issue mandates and even the syndicated loan market was becoming increasingly accessible for private sector credits.
  • The investor base has shrunk dramatically, with hedge funds and proprietary traders cutting their activities after last year's losses and many mainstream institutional investors simply deciding, after numerous crises, that the boom-bust nature of the asset class is not for them.
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