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'Dead quiet' few weeks will benefit issuers as excess bonds need absorption before issuance starts to ‘fire on all cylinders’ from August 17
Green investors buy when everyone else stops, giving issuers one last pricing lever — perhaps to cross a line none of them wants to reach
◆ Scaled-back bank treasuries snap up rare seven year floater ◆ Dollar FRN drought eases as World Bank extends curve ◆ Floater lands inside fixed rate funding levels
◆ New sterling five year lands after BoE Level B upgrade ◆ Dollar FRN 'snowball' as $2bn raised ◆ Callable issuance steady as zero structures cool
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Sustainability is conquering finance — to judge by what the industry likes to talk about. Outside the window, the real economy continues much as before. Is all the noise about green finance actually shifting capital in the right direction — or is it just making people feel better? -
London has peaked as Europe’s capital markets hub. But how much of the business it will lose is still to play for. Bankers’ faith that only some functions need go looks misplaced. The stage is set for a drawn-out poker game between banks wanting to stay in London and continental regulators who hold a strong hand.
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Pain from Brexit, higher interest rates, quantitative easing ending and political strains in the EU will all lead to more volatility in 2019, according to 22 heads of debt capital markets in the EMEA market, including 18 of the top 20, in Toby Fildes’ annual outlook survey. And that’s before Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Mohammed bin Salman get going. There is some good news, however: financial institutions are set to be big issuers, and the DCM heads expect to be net hirers...
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Financial markets are often seen as cold, calculating machines for making money. That is part of their function. But increasingly, people are talking of markets’ broader social purpose — that they exist to serve humanity and make its existence healthier and more sustainable. Toby Fildes argues that, 10 years on from the crisis, this new ethos will govern the markets’ future.
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This week's funding scorecard looks at the progress French agencies have made in their funding programmes as the year comes to a close. A few agencies have also set their funding targets for 2019.
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Lower funding needs and the European Central Bank’s confirmation that reinvestments under its Public Sector Purchase Programme will go on for some time should be supportive for the SSA market in 2019, said funding officials and analysts, even after net buying under PSPP stops at the end of this year.
