Covered bonds are secured debt instruments which offer greater investor protection than traditional corporate or government bonds. Known as a dual recourse structure it provides two layers of ...

With Europe’s ailing banks shut out of the senior market for much of 2011, covered bonds have become their most important funding tool over the past 12 months. With volatile markets and bail-in ...

Last week marked yet another first for the ETF industry, as ProShares rolled out a product that delivers access to a unique corner of the fixed income market. The new ProShares Covered Bond (COBO), as ...

The market remains in a cautious mood but it is easy to forget it has been a strong year. “Year-to-date euro benchmark net ...

“We feel that the product has now been firmly positioned in the high-quality rates/agency space” Julia Hoggett, Depfa Depfa has done more than most to encourage the development of covered bonds in the ...

If a product swamps a market, prices go down. Yet this basic economic tenet seems to have eluded many of the issuers in the Spanish covered bonds market. How else to explain the consistent lack of ...

LONDON (Reuters) - More British banks are poised to tap into investor appetite for high quality bonds backed by mortgages, after Barclays opened the covered bond market, shut for two years by the ...

Issuer tightens spread by 4bp ◆ Stronger opening on Wednesday paved way for covered ◆ Deal offered some new issue premium ...

HYGW offers a strong 13.3% distribution yield by investing in high-yield corporate bonds and writing covered calls. The fund's strategy works best when high-yield rates are flat or increasing, worst ...

Only one bank has maintained its position as a top underwriter of covered bonds over recent years, an achievement that was particularly impressive in 2009. For its consistency and leadership, and for ...