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◆ No book update for €500m no-grow deal ◆ Surprising lack of demand for defensive trade ◆ Investors continue to cherry pick in big week for supply
◆ Spread to Land Hessen key to pricing ◆ Leads thought long and hard on whether to tighten ◆ 1bp move the right amount as book grew
◆ Three German states brought a new Joint Länder bond ◆ No book update, KfW curve guides pricing ◆ Flemish Community prints new 15 year
Second digital project won’t be the issuer’s last, Länder peers may be ‘interested and willing’ to join in
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Looking back at the macroeconomic performance in 2013, the German economy picked up speed and thus recovered from the brief dip seen in the latter part of 2012 and early part of 2013. Overall, it is therefore back within the normal range of capacity utilisation.
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German economists say it is wrong to brand the country as Europe’s economic superpower no matter what international perceptions may be. As enviable as the country’s economy may seem, it will face serious challenges in the next few years, writes Philip Moore.
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Covered and senior unsecured bonds may not be the flavour of the day for Germany’s financial institutions, but a host of rival funding alternatives, including shrinking balance sheets, shedding bad assets, and shoring up tier one capital, are taking their place. Elliot Wilson reports on an industry that’s self-financing and self-reliant, but one that is exploring new forms of financing.
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The three pillar system of German banking helped the sector ride out the financial crisis and disastrous experiments with securitization mostly unscathed. It’s the envy of Europe and the continent is scrambling to mimic it. So why, asks Andrew Griffin, are bankers in the country growing tired of it?
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Germany’s document-light form of private debt placement, the Schuldschein, has been deeply rooted in the German market for years. The market opened up slowly to Austria and Switzerland — on both the investor and issuer sides. But recently a much more international audience has caught the bug. Stefanie Linhardt asks what attraction the product holds, and why issuance is not growing faster, when demand is so strong.
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Five years on from the depths of the financial crisis, Germany’s Mittelstand has transformed the way it finances itself, embracing the bond markets and changing the way it works with its bank lenders. Nina Flitman reviews the evolution of the sector, and looks ahead to what its next steps may be.