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As inflation indicators across the globe begin to point to a period of sustained growth, equity investors have fretted over where to put their money instead of tech stocks, whose valuations have reached gargantuan multiples. There is a compelling argument to be made for rotating into Greece, specifically its banks, which will have to finance a new wave of economic growth. -
Securitization investors are divided over whether to open up their ESG portfolios to mortgage-backed securities that are marketed as virtuous because of their socially beneficial use of proceeds, as opposed to their green collateral. Issuer transparency will be essential if this burgeoning market is to thrive.
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Mental health is moving to the forefront in the discussion of what action lenders should take when people are no longer able to pay back their debts. One lasting legacy of the pandemic could be that repossessing a home becomes a last resort rather than a first response and that will have consequences for investors in mortgage-backed products.
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As the securitization regimes in the UK and the EU begin to diverge, the changes made so far will do little long-term damage and there are even potential benefits, as long as rule makers on both sides of the English Channel stay true to the 'simple, transparent and standardised' (STS) principle.
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Development banks across the world — and especially those in Africa — have proven to be indispensable sources of relief during the last year. Though Africa has a wealth of challenges to economic recovery, the West African Development Bank, also known as Banque Ouest Africaine de Développement (BOAD), has high ambitions for the year ahead. The bank’s president Serge Ekué spoke to GlobalCapital about these ambitions, including an imminent capital raise.
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The European Commission’s draft Taxonomy for Sustainable Activities will stymie green bond issuance as it’s based on an unfair system that excludes mortgages on many countries’ most energy efficient buildings.
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When hot new debt products are on the march, someone will always push the boundaries beyond what is tolerable. In the case of recurring revenue loans, that would be a mistake.
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Last year’s market crash and then screaming rally might have been a rough ride for CLO managers and investors alike, but it has stimulated innovation and maturity in a market which, in Europe, still had some growing up to do.
