Louise Bowman

Recent stories by Louise Bowman

• Loans: High-yield hiatus could scupper loan recovery

  Limited refinancing window; Bank lending capacity could fall

  Euromoney March 2010

• Deals of the Year 2009: An instructive year

  It was meant to be another year of difficulty and potential disaster. But 2009 provided much more than even the arch-optimist could have expected.

  Euromoney February 2010

• Bonds: ManU scores own goal with investors

  High-yield investors stayed on sidelines; Bondholders take early bath

  Euromoney February 2010

• BNP fund taps renewed interest in infrastructure

  Record number of funds seek cash; Debt appetite returns

  Euromoney February 2010

• High-yield bonds: Returns are there for a reason

  PIK deal shocks market; Market risks overshoot

  Euromoney January 2010

• Securitization: Year-end cheer as US CMBS market comes alive

  Succession of deals in closing weeks; UK sentiment lags far behind

  Euromoney January 2010

• ING spells the end of Bancassurance

  ING’s European Commission-enforced restructuring is rather different to the continuation of strategy that the bank is trying to claim. Analysts are starting to question the entire premise that banking and insurance can work together. Louise Bowman reports.

  Euromoney December 2009

• European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes: Steelie Neelie takes a hard line

  Euromoney December 2009

• Alt-A problem will hinder ING Direct USA sale

  ING chief executive Jan Hommen may have hoped that by agreeing to sell off the insurance business he could keep the EU at bay, but this was not to be the case.

  Euromoney December 2009

• Monolines: Ambac stares into the bankruptcy abyss

  Insurer skirts close to capital limits; CDS liabilities could rocket

  Euromoney December 2009

• Securitization: Return of the living dead

  Proving that higher spreads, the annihilation of half of the investor base and a global recession can’t keep a good product down, securitization has returned to Europe. Louise Bowman investigates.

  Euromoney November 2009

• Securitization: Banks start to shift retained ABS

  Euromoney November 2009

• Regulation: UK FSA jumps the gun on liquidity

  Plans on hold until recovery assured; Eligible asset limitations anger banks

  Euromoney November 2009

• Credit exposures: Barclays pays up for Protium protection

  Euromoney October 2009

• Credit markets: Reversal of fortune

  The spectacular rally in the US high-yield market this year has spilled over to Europe, raising the tantalizing prospect that, after several false starts, this asset class could finally establish itself. Louise Bowman reports.

  Euromoney October 2009

• Investors squeezed in market melt-up

  From a journalist’s point of view it is very refreshing to be writing about investors pouring into a market and achieving more than 50% returns year to date – it feels quite like old times. But the performance of the high-yield bond market in recent months has also brought back some other rather uncomfortable memories.

  Euromoney October 2009

• Real Estate poll 2009: The next leg down

  This recession is unusual in that it was not triggered by commercial real estate but has dragged the sector down with it. However, this does not mean that recovery for this asset class will be any quicker or less painful. Louise Bowman reports.

  Euromoney September 2009

• Corporate restructuring - Valuation challenges: is it worth it?

  Junior lenders frustrated; IMO case sets precedent

  Euromoney September 2009

• Property derivatives: Light at the end of the tunnel

  Slight pick-up in volumes; Investors see value in battered UK

  Euromoney September 2009