Cash pouring into India from its watershed inclusion into key global bond indexes is already reshaping markets in a country long keen to insulate itself from hot money flows. Foreign investors have pumped roughly 780 billion rupees ($9.4 billion) into eligible sovereign bonds since JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s landmark announcement in September and are beginning … Read more
Mumbai: SD Corporation, a wholly-owned company of Shapoorji Pallonji Company, rescheduled coupon payments on its ₹750 crore bonds by two months to March 31, 2024, with an agreement that it will deposit the coupon in an escrow account a day before the due date, said people with knowledge of the matter. The company is engaged … Read more
Mumbai: India’s government bond market has witnessed a first, with the outstanding amount on a single sovereign security breaching the ₹2-lakh-crore mark, demonstrating the finance ministry’s tolerance for a much higher borrowing limit through one bond series than what applied to the earlier threshold. After its last auction in the primary market on January 19, … Read more
New York: Right around the start of November, two words suddenly disappeared from the chatter in the bond market: debt supply. As bond prices surged across the developed world day after day, sending yields tumbling and handing investors some much-needed profits, the angst about soaring budget deficits melted away. But for how long? Over the … Read more
Could 2024 finally be the year that a new James Bond star is announced? Daniel Craig bowed out as 007 in autumn 2021 after shooting No Time To Die all the way back in 2019. Speculation is rife over his replacement, the first new Bond since 2005, with a recent shake-up in the bookies’ race … Read more
Mumbai: A sizable early consent fee has attracted more bondholders to vote for the restructuring of Vedanta Resources Ltd (VRL) debt. The London-based holding company, which owns metals and resources businesses in India, is offering a 2% fee if consent is provided by January 2, and a 0.25% fee for late consent after this date. … Read more
Mumbai: Bond forwards in sovereign debt, for which the Reserve Bank of India released draft directions last week, will help end a regulatory grey area and let banks and insurers cater to the trillions of rupees worth of retail demand for long-term investment products in a standardised manner. Introduction of bond forwards, which are derivative … Read more
