Covered Bond Comment
Signs of stabilization?
Group Economics Macro & Financial Markets Research Joost Beaumont +31 20 628 3437 joost.beaumont@nl.abnamro.com
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08 May 2015
After the selloff in the rates market, selective buyers emerged in core bonds ECB says that it won’t slow the pace of its purchases any time soon ING bank posts strong Q1 2015 net result
Signs of stabilisation?
ING bank publishes 2015Q1 net result of EUR 1.187mn
Yesterday, the selloff in government bond markets deepened
Dutch bank ING said that its 2015Q1 net result grew by 43%
for most of the day. With volatility soaring (20bps intraday in
(year on year) to EUR 1.187mn. The 2015Q1 net result has
10yrs bunds), investors were grasping for their breath and
even doubled compared to 2014Q4. On a group level, ING
stayed sidelined where they could. After supply from Spain and
group posted a 2015Q1 net result of EUR 1.769mn. ING’s fully
French was digested, the rates market started to move into
loaded CET1 ratio rose by 110bps to 11.6%. In addition, ING
calmer waters. In covered bonds, where investors also
stated that if TLAC requirements would be at 21.5% (including
sidelined the large swings, we saw selective buyers emerging.
buffers), it would be well place to meet these requirements.
Clip sizes were still lower than usual but we could detect a pattern in the buying. Buying was mostly concentrated in short term core bonds which yielded slightly positive. This buying behaviour could indicate that investors are starting to fade the move. ECB won’t slow pace of its purchases soon ECB’s director general of market operations Bindseil stated that the central bank was unlikely to slow down the rate of covered bond purchases any time soon. This is not completely in line with information released by the ECB earlier this week. Data indicated that purchases were slowing down marginally. However, according to the ECB this should therefore be seen as a blip. Mr Bindseil also confirmed that although the ECB uses an internal guideline for operational purposes, the ECB has flexibility to compose its monthly purchases under its EAPP umbrella. This should therefore also apply to the amount of covered bond purchases as part of the monthly EUR 60bn target. Mr Bindseil acknowledged that the covered bond purchase programme has crowded out the investor base and that it would take time for investors to step back in. Possibly this could be factored in its exit strategy.
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