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Analysts debate bank fundamentals as pandemic panic deepens

Spreads on bank bonds were sent shooting wider again on Thursday, caught up in further negative news around the Covid-19. But market participants are still unsure about how much of impact the pandemic will have on bank credit quality, with the sector already facing pressures over profitability.

David Freitas, March 12, 2020
People News

Senior FIG banker has quit Credit Suisse

Patrick Porritt has left Credit Suisse, as the bank promotes new faces.

David Rothnie, March 12, 2020
Equity

Equity markets in survival mode as ‘insane’ volatility hits

Global stock markets have succumbed to panic in a violent and historic sell-off that echoes the worst days of the 2008 financial crisis thanks to the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus, and equity capital markets are shuttered in response. However, ECM bankers are focusing now on the "other side of the tunnel" and rights issues for cash-strapped clients.

Sam Kerr, March 12, 2020
Private debt

Sunak keeps capital markets hopes for local authorities alive

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.

Silas Brown, March 12, 2020
Supras and agencies

DZ Bank developing automated ESG investor classification system

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.

Burhan Khadbai, March 12, 2020
Asia

The man behind the mask: banker spies opportunity

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.

Taipan, March 12, 2020
Regulation

European bank lobby asks regulators for pandemic relief

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.

Tyler Davies, March 12, 2020
Leader

Prepared for the worst, hoping for the best

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.

Toby Fildes, March 12, 2020
Equity-Linked

NMC Health investigation finds evidence of fraudulent behaviour

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.

Aidan Gregory, March 12, 2020
Asia

Pandemic threatens M&A pipeline

The coronavirus will depress mergers and acquisitions activity, hurt advisory revenues and change the emphasis of deal-making in 2020, writes David Rothnie.

David Rothnie, March 12, 2020
EM LatAm

Ecuador austerity plan fails to put floor on bonds

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.

Oliver West, March 12, 2020
CLOs

CLOs to sidestep oil chaos as exposures dwindle

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.

Paola Aurisicchio, March 11, 2020

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