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Private debt

Looming volatility set to test unrated bonds’ popularity

Europe, unlike the US, has a market for unrated public bonds. This has been one reason why Europe’s private placement market has not grown as large as that in the US. In good times issuers find it a valid alternative to getting a rating, however, as tougher conditions return, the pendulum may be swinging the other way. Nigel Owen reports.

Nigel Owen, May 03, 2018
Private debt

Low rates to end, but fresh challenges await MTNs

The market for corporate MTNs has come under pressure from monetary policy, regulation and a proliferation of alternative products. Dealers have been forced to adapt to new conditions to find ways to demonstrate value, but fresh challenges are approaching. Lewis McLellan reports.

Lewis McLellan, May 03, 2018
Asia

Bank of China hires Skeet amid ambitious plans

Bank of China (BoC) plans to play to its strengths by deploying its balance sheet and providing liquidity to parched investors. With syndicate and trading operations in place, it has hired Tim Skeet as head of Western European origination.

Bill Thornhill, May 03, 2018
Private debt

Roundtable Discussion: Room for all in European private debt

European issuers are finding ever greater depths of liquidity in the private debt market with the Euro PP, Schuldschein and US PP markets all offering different options. GlobalCapital brought together a number of bankers, investors and issuers in London in mid-March to discuss the state of the markets and how they see them developing.

Nigel Owen, May 03, 2018
Private debt

Euro PP awaits end of QE but pan-European hopes fade

The Euro private placement market has had to fight competition on all sides, and quantitative easing has helped to make that more intense, with banks, the Schuldschein market and public bonds offering very cheap funding. Prospects of the cheap money tide ebbing are raising spirits. But as Silas Brown reports, the idea of one Euro PP market covering Europe is fading.

Silas Brown, May 03, 2018
Private debt

Roundtable Discussion: Investors keep discipline, wait for narrow space to broaden

Paris is a centre for continental European private debt activity that goes on outside the German Schuldschein and US private placement markets, which are both clearly defined by their legal documents.

Toby Fildes, May 03, 2018
EM LatAm

Brazilian Andrade defaults on bond maturity

Engineering and construction company Andrade Gutierrez Engenharia, one of the largest contractors in Latin America, failed to repay a senior unsecured bond that matured on April 30.

Oliver West, May 03, 2018
Asia

Banks go granular to study climate credit risk

Sixteen banks have made the most concerted effort yet at defining how to do scenario analysis on climate change — the core risk management exercise called for by the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures.

Jon Hay, May 03, 2018
Market News

Apple: iSend my cash home

Apple’s announcement this week that it would launch an extra $100bn share buy-back left European markets poised for the higher yields that an exodus of American cash might bring.

Nell Mackenzie, May 03, 2018
People and Markets

Sovereign bond treatment impedes banking union, says Bundesbank

A panel this week involving German and Italian regulators highlighted the complications in creating a European deposit insurance scheme (EDIS) and pushing on with the banking union, with policymakers in the two countries viewing the banking sector from radically different angles.

Jasper Cox, May 03, 2018
FIG

Banks seek MREL flexibility with ‘flip’ contracts

Contractual features aligning newly issued senior bonds with as yet unsigned rules on bail-ins are likely to prove popular in the coming months, as financial institutions look to accelerate their bond issuance for the minimum requirement for own funds and eligible liabilities (MREL). Tyler Davies reports.

Tyler Davies, May 03, 2018
Senior Debt

Lloyds prices tight in dollars on solo mission

Lloyds Banking group had the dollar bond market to itself on Tuesday as it exploited the continuing strong appetite for short-end paper from investors.

David Rothnie, May 03, 2018

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