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BNP Paribas has placed several senior syndicate and DCM bankers — all involved in the firm's SSA business — at risk, GlobalCapital understands. -
It may have been one of the most telegraphed moves in central banking history, but on Thursday, European Central Bank president Mario Draghi finally gave the capital market punters what they wanted and dialled some big numbers. He has promised to “do whatever it takes” to save the euro since July 2012, but now, with the advent of sovereign quantitative easing he is at last walking the walk, to go with the talk.
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Emmanuel Smiecench has left Société Générale where he was head of SSA syndicate in London, covering both emerging market and investment grade deals.
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BNP Paribas is creating a corporate debt platform in its financing solutions group, bringing together debt capital markets, loan capital markets origination and corporate acquisition finance.
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Electronic bond trading provider MarketAxess has identified only 39 corporate bonds it considered liquid in the third quarter this year, from a universe of around 200,000, a ratio that poses huge challenges to the European Securities and Markets Authority’s attempt to introduce equity-like transparency to the fixed income market as part of the Markets In Financial Instruments Directive.
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An attempt by Indian regulators to develop a framework for municipal bond issuance has been welcomed as a step in the right direction to meet the country’s infrastructure needs. However, analysts warn that the any framework would do little to boost municipal bond use in the short term.
