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Pfandbrief has moved from being a rates product to a credit product over the past 12 months – not bad going for an instrument that for years has been marketed as a government bond surrogate. Unfortunately, although Pfandbrief has become more credit intensive, it cannot compete with the yields on credit product proper. But interest may pick up if sentiment towards lower-rated corporates turns sour. Hardeep Dhillon reports.

Although demand for German covered bonds (Pfandbriefe) primarily blows hot and cold based on Bund swap spreads, credit quality is an additional factor that is weighing much more heavily on the sector. Tight swap spreads and concerns over credit quality represent the worst sort of combination, but that is what the market is facing currently.

“It is not easy to sell this credit at the moment,” says

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