Bank of America readies a benchmark

Despite encouraging news from Bank of America, most US mortgage providers have so far remained aloof despite investor enthusiasm for covered bonds. Jethro Wookey reports.

US banks pay for covered charge

At the recent Euromoney US Covered Bond Conference in New York there was a clear sense of excitement among investors, bankers and market commentators about the future of covered bonds. What used to be principally a German backwater has become, over the past decade, the biggest, most liquid and highest-rated part of the non-sovereign bond market in Europe. New markets and new segments of existing ones are opening all the time.

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