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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has backed away from rules which could have crippled the repo market, through bypassing high level laws that were fundamentally ill-conceived. But the initiative, supposed to improve settlement discipline, will still hurt liquidity in the bond market.
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Capital market participants tend to keep their heads below the political parapet. Brexit is one issue they must not ignore. It would sabotage the City’s leadership in financial services and be an assault on the fabric of global governance.
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Gilt investors have suggested that syndications form part of the UK Debt Management’s main issuance programme, rather than being used as a supplement — but bankers are cautious about such a move, despite the extra fees it would bring in. -
Société Générale has become the latest big name bank to pull back from a government’s bond business, after it resigned as a Gilt-edged market maker for the UK Debt Management Office on Friday.
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Two new working groups of the Green Bond Principles will begin work next week, on defining greenness and on impact reporting. The move is part of the green bond market’s effort to define itself more clearly, partly in the hope that governments might ultimately subsidise it.
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Monte dei Paschi di Siena may be the ugly sister of Italian banks for investors, but it’s the Italian sovereign’s favourite son when it comes to primary dealerships.
