UK Sovereign
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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. -
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.
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BNP Paribas said on Thursday that it had hired Paul Hollingsworth as UK economist.
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There was a smattering of sterling deals from public sector borrowers this week, as the biggest issuer in the currency — the UK Debt Management Office — provided details for its next syndication.
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To help celebrate the 20th anniversary of the setting up of the UK Debt Management Office, GlobalCapital gathered together some of the UK Gilt market’s leading traders, investors and bankers, with its CEO Sir Robert Stheeman, to discuss the state of the bond markets, how they have changed since the DMO was established in April 1998 and how the government’s investor base and bond issuance are likely to evolve over the coming years.
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The UK Debt Management Office’s next syndication will be a new index-linked Gilt in the 20 to 25 year part of the curve. Some investors and Gilt-edged market makers had called for that tenor a week ago, although others had been looking for a longer dated issue.
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Gilt investors and market makers have offered a broad range of views on the form that the UK’s next syndication should take during a meeting with the country’s Debt Management Office. The meeting was without Scotiabank, which last week quit as a Gilt-edged market maker (GEMM).
