Government bonds
Fixing the flaw in sovereign CDSs
Good fortune ensured credit default swaps (CDSs) on Greek debt paid out at a level close to the actual losses suffered by bondholders in the country’s restructuring. But the market cannot rely on luck....
High-yield ETPs in the US experienced their first outflows since November 2011, but inflows into government bond products propelled May to a record-breaking month for fixed-income ETPs
Vanguard has made its entry into the European ETF market with the listing of five physically backed ETFs on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), on May 23. The funds are the Vanguard FTSE 100 ETF, the Vanguard...
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Dangerous embrace: disentangling bank and state
In the four months between the start of December last year and the end of March, Italian and Spanish banks bought more than €140 billion in government bonds – much of them issued by their domestic debt offices. They did it using the 1% loans offered...
Basel 2.5 meets the Sarkozy trade: new rules could hit bond demand
Regulators want banks to hold more capital against government bond positions, but the regime is being changed at a time when the industry is the main source of demand for big eurozone issuers such as Italy and Spain. In addition, banks fear modelling...
Political risk
November’s US presidential elections are creeping closer, and the country’s banks are backing the Republicans. The American Bankers Association has contributed $1.4 million directly to the two parties, with over three-quarters of it going into the...
Reviving securitisation: regulators send mixed messages
Regulators are talking about reviving the securitisation market as a solution to European bank funding pressures – and the door has been opened to counting mortgage-backed debt as a liquid asset. But the market also faces regulatory headwinds. Mark...
Tullett Prebon and Allianz to launch Solvency II data service
Benchmark OTC curves 'will help insurers calculate risk data for market risk models'
Europe gets long and short ETFs on US and UK sovereign debt, with leverage...
The first exchange-traded funds to offer daily leveraged exposure to US and UK sovereign debt have been listed in Europe
New regulations could cause $7 trillion "collateral shock"
Trio of rules - on liquidity, clearing and margin for uncleared trades - will hoover up vast amounts of collateral, market participants fear
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