Euroland Municipal Bonds: New city states
Investors in Italian local authorities look to regions rather than cities to provide real liquidity. Marcello Esposito, an analyst of the sector at BCI in Milan, sees €250 million as the desirable minimum bond size..
Apart from the two or three biggest cities, he thinks only the regions can do €250 million. In June 1998, the central Italian region of Lazio, which includes Rome, obliged.
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