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  • JBIC opens offshore door for 'Japan Inc'
    The Japan Bank for International Co-operation (JBIC) has been both aggressive and innovative in its international borrowings this year. In its earlier guise as the former Export-Import Bank of Japan (Jexim) it reopened the international markets for Japan's government guaranteed issuers (JGGIs) in early February with an innovative $1bn five year floating rate note.
    December 01, 1999
  • New name and new challenges for DBJ
    Euroweek last interviewed Yoichiro Yokoyama in July 1998 when he was director of the treasury department at the former Japan Development Bank (JDB). At that time the yen was trading at ¥145/$, confidence in the Japanese economy at home and abroad was sinking to a recent history low and adverse sentiment towards Japanese issuers in the international capital markets was growing apace.
    December 01, 1999
  • Riding the equities renaissance
    At long last, Japanese equities appear to broken out of their 10 year bear market. Corporate restructuring, burgeoning investor liquidity - particularly in the all-important retail sector - and a dramatic return by foreign investors at the start of this year have all combined to sent shares soaring again.
    December 01, 1999
  • Tepco switches on with euro investors
    Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) became the first Japanese corporate issuer to tap the single European currency market when it raised Eu750m in early March with a five year fixed rate offering lead managed by IBJ, Paribas and WestLB (which led the company's first Deutschmark issue in 1969).
    December 01, 1999
  • Securitisation boom goes local
    The Japanese securitisation market has offered little but disappointment to foreign deal engineers this year. While 1998 was a boom year for international issuance and Japan promised even greater rewards in 1999, the reality has been very different.
    December 01, 1999
  • The return of the Samurai bond
    Activity in Japan's long dormant Samurai domestic bond sector is starting to liven up again. Domestic investors are increasingly keen to find alternative investments at a time of paltry returns on traditional products and are increasingly willing to move down the credit scale.
    December 01, 1999
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    December 01, 1999
  • The supply/demand imbalance
    Almost all the predictions made last year for Japan's domestic corporate bond market in 1999 have been stood on their head. Last year, as the credit crunch worsened, as investors shied away from credit risk and as corporate bond spreads rose steadily, bankers in Tokyo were predicting another boom year for a market which had almost doubled in size from 1997.
    December 01, 1999
  • Derivatives
    "AND NOW THE WEATHER ... " - PART III: AN INTRODUCTION TO WEATHER DERIVATIVES
    Weather derivatives markets have traditionally been characterized as having a small number of participants and large bid-ask spreads, but this is rapidly changing.
    November 29, 1999
  • Derivatives
    "AND NOW THE WEATHER ... " - PART II : AN INTRODUCTION TO WEATHER DERIVATIVES
    The list of actual contracts in use is extensive and constantly evolving.
    November 22, 1999
  • Asia
    Nippon Shinpan repeats shopping loan ABS
    Japan's largest consumer finance company, Nippon Shinpan Co, issued its third securitisation of shopping loans this week with a ¥20bn deal privately placed by Greenwich NatWest - the first time the UK/US house has lead managed a securitisation of Japanese domestic assets. Nippon Shinpan has been a pioneer of structured finance in Japan - its ¥15bn J-Cars Corp deal, backed by auto loans and lead managed by Goldman Sachs, effectively opened the term ABS market in 1994.
    November 19, 1999
  • Asia
    Pulled KT&G sale ends Asia’s year on low note
    Korea Tobacco & Ginseng's $790m privatisation became the latest deal to fall prey to investor apathy toward Asia when bookrunners Credit Suisse First Boston, Dongwon Securities Hyundai Securities and Warburg Dillon Read were forced to pull the deal just one day from pricing, due today (Friday). Continuing investor resistance to Asian stocks, combined with funds shutting their books in advance of potential Y2K problems, means the year will end on a low note.
    November 19, 1999
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