UK Sovereign
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The UK’s Brexit secretary’s admission on Monday night that the government will not cap immigration after the country leaves the European Union — and that immigration could rise or fall after Brexit — may well be the first bit of good news on London’s future as Europe’s main financial centre since the referendum last June. -
The UK will run one syndicated bond issue in the first quarter of its 2017-18 financial year, as the country prepared for a week heavy with political events.
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The European Investment Bank on Tuesday became the sixth European public sector borrower to hit screens in sterling since March 13, tapping a January 2020 line for £250m. But UK inflation figures could put an end to the currency's run in the sun. Meanwhile, investors and banks discussed what form the next UK Gilt syndication should take.
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The Scottish city of Aberdeen may be long past its 1980s heyday — when it was the hub of the burgeoning North Sea oil industry and its football team was one of the most feared in Europe — but it could soon find itself being a useful capital markets bellwether for the latest constitutional crisis to hit the UK.
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The UK Debt Management Office will have to tackle its lowest issuance volume since 2007 in the next financial year, although analysts warned that the longer-term picture for UK borrowing could be affected heavily by imminent negotiations over Brexit.
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The scores are in. See how market participants rated EFSF's dual tranche, the UK's £2bn inflation linked note and Spain's €5bn 2033 transaction.
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Shareholders and bondholders should pressurise banks to clean up their acts on climate change, sustainable finance experts said this week.
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The UK Debt Management Office (DMO) breezed through the final syndication of its financial year on Tuesday, printing at a record low real yield with its biggest ever book — despite a postponed start to opening books and murmurings about falling demand for inflation linked paper.
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The superlatives “fantastic”, “surprising to the upside all the time” and “huge tightening” were being thrown around about the public sector dollar market this week — the only missing ingredient appears to be supply.
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Nederlandse Waterschapsbank is set to bring the five year part of the dollar curve back to life for the first time in three weeks, after mandating banks for a March 2022 Reg S/144A deal on Wednesday.
