Local and regional issuers bring bond market diversity

The number and variety of regional and municipal issuers tapping the international markets continues to grow steadily. Central governments across the Americas, Americasand emerging markets want to devolve financial responsibility. The degree of sovereign support varies.

       
Janne Thomsen

Lending to local and regional governments should feel simpler and safer thanks to the reassuring presence of sovereign states in the background. Instead the role of the centre often adds a new layer of complexity. A pretty clear legal framework of responsibilities may exist in Germany. But elsewhere it is often not cut and dried whether a country should, either legally or morally, avert the default of a particular town or region.

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