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I spotted more than a few glum faces drifting into Central at the start of the week: too many stomachs filled with turkey and mulled wine, and heads aching from a prolonged New Year’s celebration. Not many had their hearts quite in it on returning to work.
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Banks should feel buoyant right now. Well, the funding officials should at least. As governments across the world have taken steps to prop up their financial systems, once-suspect banks have found they can issue bonds at the rating of their sovereign. They are no longer seen as warehouses for dodgy assets. The assets are still there — but now the banks are triple-A credits.
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Pricing isn’t everything. That’s a lesson that many Asian borrowers could do with learning, especially in times like these.
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Finally some real signs of life from the Asia Pacific debt markets. Australia’s banks are flocking to the capital markets for senior debt, with four deals mandated and more certain to follow.
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I’m sure I don’t need to tell you what happened to Asia’s first covenant-lite leveraged buy-out. I certainly don’t need to tell anyone at JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch or ABN Amro what happened to the debt backing the $1.4bn buy-out of Singapore’s United Test & Assembly Center in mid-2007 — they’ll have had plenty of time to study the debt while it festered on their own balance sheets.
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It may seem like a long time ago now but the Asian bond markets actually had a pretty good start to the year. The Malaysian ringgit and Thai baht markets, in particular, saw a swathe of international issuers tap foreign domestic investor bases and appeared to be making baby steps towards developing into fully fledged international markets.