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Market News

UBS trader fights Libor ban in High Court

Arif Hussein, a former rates trader involved in the Libor rigging scandal at UBS, faced the Upper Tribunal this week to argue against his ban from working in the City, saying he had just been following orders. Following the UK’s introduction of the Senior Managers Regime in 2016, any similar scandal would play out very differently today.

Nell Mackenzie, January 04, 2018
Bank Capital

MPS to offer the ‘ultimate recovery play’

Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena announced a mandate for a benchmark tier two bond on Thursday, its first since its recapitalisation last year. It is a crucial deal for the bank, but it will have to offer a high coupon to tempt investors back.

Jasper Cox, January 04, 2018
Market News

MiFID stumbles to a start

This week brought the flick of the switch, the powering up of MiIFD II, but the mass market transparency that market participants had eagerly anticipated remained absent.

Nell Mackenzie, January 04, 2018
Sovereigns

Sweden scores in superb dollar market

The dollar bond market has been thoroughly supportive of this week’s SSA borrowers, but none more so than Sweden, which pulled in its biggest order book ever for its first deal of 2018.

Lewis McLellan, January 04, 2018
Covered Bonds

CFF deal sparks fears of covered bond bull run petering out

A thinly oversubscribed €1bn 10 year covered bond issued this week by Compagnie de Financement Foncier could mark the beginning of the end of the bull run in covered bonds. Bill Thornhill reports.

Bill Thornhill, January 04, 2018
Kensington to raise up to £616m as buyers warm to MBS

Kensington Mortgage Co was close behind Vauxhall Finance on Thursday in announcing its first securitization of 2018. The issuer declared its fifth Finsbury Square issue to fund an existing mortgage portfolio of £431m, plus up to £185m of pre-funding for new loans.

Jon Hay, January 04, 2018
Corporate Bonds

Dollar market storms into new year

The dollar market picked up where it left off in 2017 with tight pricing and bulging order books as borrowers hit the ground running.

David Rothnie, January 04, 2018
Supras and agencies

ADB, EIB and FMS-W grab almost £2bn

The sterling market had a healthy opening week in the public sector with three deals raising a combined £1.9bn, and there is plenty more in the pipeline, according to syndicate bankers.

Lewis McLellan, January 04, 2018
Derivatives

Prophecies of ISIN-geddon yet to materialise under MiFID II

After much heated debate, the Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB), which generates international securities identification numbers for some over the counter derivatives, seems to have successfully navigated the first week of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive’s second coming.

Ross Lancaster, January 04, 2018
FIG

Yankee banks hit US dollars with storm of new issuance

Extreme weather conditions failed to prevent issuers from flocking to the US dollar bond market this week, with Yankee issuers getting off to a cracking start to the year.

David Rothnie, January 04, 2018
Vauxhall starts up ABS in hot sterling market

The first two European securitizations of 2018 appeared on Thursday — both sterling issues — with Vauxhall Finance, the new name for GMAC UK, announcing a £428m car loan ABS and Kensington Mortgage Co bringing the latest issue from its Finsbury Square programme.

Jon Hay, January 04, 2018
EM Bond Comments

Republic of Slovenia EUR1.5bn 1% March 28

Rating: Baa1/A+/A-

Virginia Furness, January 04, 2018

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