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The country is one of the most versatile sovereign issuers, printing across multiple formats
Primary market for public sector unlikely to see large transactions until after Easter, reckon bankers
Market participants pray for no negative news overnight in hope of ‘pre-Easter wave of issuance’
Two day executions expose dollar issuers to market volatility
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Charlie Berman, the bond market veteran, believes the platform he is developing, Agora, will not face competition from other fintech applications in the debt capital markets, due to its unique selling point of covering the entire lifecycle of a bond and the use of distributed ledger technology.
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Indonesia has made impressive use of the international bond markets to endure a volatile year. GlobalCapital finds out what the country is planning next. -
For many investors, the US election landed in the best possible place — a Joe Biden win with a split Congress, ensuring a strong pandemic plan, yet blocking radical change. But Biden’s leadership will reshape securitization markets through changes to critical regulatory agencies, setting the tone for the next four years in consumer credit, mortgages and green securitization. Jennifer Kang reports.
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Governments have had little choice but to load up on debt to save their economies. With the crucial support of low interest rates and vast quantitative easing programmes, there is little immediate threat to debt sustainability. But as Jasper Cox reports, nothing lasts forever.
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Public sector borrowing has been the backbone of the global economy’s response to the unprecedented economic and humanitarian disaster of Covid-19. Sovereigns, supranationals, agencies and regions rose to the new challenge, displaying more ingenuity and ambition than ever in their selection of market, format, currency and tenor and producing some truly spectacular deals. Borrowers throughout the SSA class had to adjust their funding programmes after the first quarter — many to double or even treble their requirements. Contending with inflated funding needs, as well as a market beset by severe dislocations, required unusual flexibility and creativity. Amid all that, SSA borrowers managed not simply to raise the sums required, but to push forward market attitudes to SRI debt and to new risk-free-rates products.
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In the not so distant past, financial markets looked upon the dollar as the safe haven. But in 2020, the US currency’s very status as the default choice in times of trouble worked against it. Looking ahead, issuers may not be so keen to rely on it when times get tough. Lewis McLellan reports.
