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The People’s Bank of China has used its extensive holdings of European government bonds to act as an “escape valve” at times when the European repo market has become squeezed — such as year-end and quarter-end periods, when certain French and German bonds were unobtainable at almost any price. -
KfW has sold Europe’s first blockchain-based bond, although a quirk of German law meant the transaction had to be replicated on paper. While the bond was instantly settled, those involved say a crucial component is missing if this technology is to become part of capital markets’ infrastructure: a cash settlement facility on a distributed ledger.
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Mizuho has hired Julie Edinburgh to fill a new position: head of vanilla MTNs.
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In a fillip to the Masala bond market, Reserve Bank of India is excluding offshore rupee-denominated bonds from the investment limits in corporate debt for foreign portfolio investors, effective October 3.
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China’s downgrade by S&P caused an initial wave of surprise in the market on Thursday, but the rating change will ultimately be a non-event, despite the sovereign plotting a return to dollar bonds shortly.
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Central American development bank Cabei’s acting head of capital markets is moving to Washington, DC to become lead funding officer at the Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC) in the treasury division.
