UK Sovereign
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GlobalCapital announced the winners of its Sustainable and Responsible Capital Markets Awards 2018 in Amsterdam on Tuesday evening. This year’s two sovereign debut green finance issues, from Indonesia and Belgium, won Deals of the Year in their regions, and there were double laurels for Danone, in both the bond and loan markets. -
Barkis was willing, so David Copperfield related to us in Dickens’ famous novel. Now, it appears, Mark Carney is, too. And like the fictional stagecoach driver, Carney has been just as frustratingly enigmatic, at least to some in the markets. But his declaration on Tuesday that he was “willing” to stay on as governor of the Bank of England until 2020 should help market stability in the face of Brexit.
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There is little demand for another public sector issue referenced to Sonia, the preferred alternative to sterling Libor, in the wake of the European Investment Bank's successful deal in June, a senior SSA portfolio manager said this week.
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International Finance Corporation printed a record size for its seven year on Tuesday, with huge backing from bank treasuries, despite the trade offering no new issue concession.
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International Finance Corporation mandated banks for a new sterling benchmark deal on Monday, with the issuer returning to the currency for the second time this year.
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Standard Chartered has appointed a new head of syndicate, as well as a new head of DCM West and DCM East.
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A Credit Suisse DCM managing director has quit the bank to join Deloitte.
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The nominations for GlobalCapital's Sustainable and Responsible Capital Markets Awards 2018 have been revealed, as a result of our worldwide market poll, conducted in July.
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Are professional codes of conduct shining lodestars for how to behave in financial markets — or dusty screeds of boilerplate that no one can remember? That is what a group of enthusiasts are trying to discover, in the hope that such codes, if used in the best way, could genuinely improve behaviour.
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After three sterling bonds this week from the eurozone, the cross-border issuance in the currency reached its highest ever year-to-date level, according to Dealogic.
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The UK Debt Management Office breezed through another syndication on Wednesday, although bankers said that the darkening cloud of global trade wars likely led some investors to seek shelter in the safe-haven asset.
