Posts tagged 'Denmark'

What the Danish negative rate experience tells us

| May 07 09:00 | Comment |

Back in July, 2012 the Danish central bank, Nationalbanken, lowered the deposit rate to -0.2 per cent. Back then we wrote that it was going to be costly for the banks, and that money market rates were going deeper into negative territory. With Draghi’s comments last week, how did that whole negative deposit rate action turn out for Denmark?

Nordea had a note out last week on that very subject. Now, before we move, let’s remember that Danish monetary policy is tailored around the FX peg. The deposit rate was there to assure outflow because of mounting pressure on the EUR/DKK pair. Read more

This normalising world

David joined the FT in 2011 as a Marjorie Deane fellow. He covered emerging markets, equities and currencies before making the jump over to FT Alphaville in May 2012.

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| Jan 24 17:38 | Comment |

From the Danish central bank:

Effective from 25 January 2013, Danmarks Nationalbank’s interest rate on certificates of deposit and the lending rate are increased by 0.10 percentage point. The discount rate and the current account rate are unchanged. Read more

Some Danish negativity consequences

David joined the FT in 2011 as a Marjorie Deane fellow. He covered emerging markets, equities and currencies before making the jump over to FT Alphaville in May 2012.

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| Sep 26 2012 18:24 | Comment |

Remember when Denmark’s central bank went negative, back in July?

After the ECB’s deposit rate went to zero, the Nationalbanken cut its own deposit rate, largely in order to stem capital inflows. Read more

How to kill a bank, Denmark edition

Izabella Kaminska joined FT Alphaville in October 2008. Before that she worked as a producer at CNBC, a natural gas reporter at Platts and an associate editor of BP's internal magazine.

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| Aug 08 2012 11:35 | Comment |

To all those still defending negative interest rates — arguing that the stimulative effects will outweigh the costs to banks — we bring you the following from Tina Mortensen at Citi on Wednesday:

Denmark — FSA urges banks to charge customers more and to cut costs deeper to stay competitive. Following the introduction of negative interest rates, Danish banks are struggling to maintain their interest rate margins. At the same time, the economy has still not recovered from last year’s funding crisis and the fallout of a burst housing bubble in 2007. Read more

The ‘natural experiment’ of negative deposits rates in Denmark

| Jul 09 2012 08:35 | Comment |

Maybe not truly natural, as this is a matter of currency intervention, but close.

After the ECB lowered its interest and deposit rates on Thursday, the Danish central bank, Nationalbanken, followed a few hours later. Read more

Well, we were asking about ECB negative rates…

Joseph joined FT Alphaville way back in March 2010. He likes all the politically and legally fiddly bits of finance. He also likes credit, rates, global macro, tail risk, and all that stuff. (You should email him story ideas. He’ll take anything.)

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| Jul 05 2012 15:13 | Comment |

(That’s Lisa, at Thursday’s European Central Bank press conference) Read more

Denmark: Stop sending us money

| May 31 2012 17:30 | Comment |

For the second Thursday in a row, the Danish central bank has cut interest rates:

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Music to govern Europe by

Paul Murphy is the founding editor of FT Alphaville.

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| Jan 12 2012 13:31 | Comment |

Click to enjoy…

Maskarade -- Carl Nielsen Read more

What’s inside Pandora’s box – redux

| Aug 16 2011 09:43 | Comment |

Why, it’s an investigation.

RTRS-DANISH FSA SAYS TO REPORT NORDEA BANK DENMARK TO POLICE IN CONNECTION WITH INVESTMENT ANALYSIS ON PANDORA Read more

What the United States could learn from Denmark

| Jul 26 2011 18:27 | Comment |

That it should raise the debt ceiling to $42,000 billion.

Wait, hear us out… Read more

Danske Bank breaks up with Moody’s over mortgages

Tracy Alloway used to be deputy editor of FT Alphaville. Here she learned the details of derivatives, the absurdities of accounting and the various structures of ... erm ... structured finance. She now covers big US banks for the FT paper, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. She pops up on FT Alphaville every once in a while.

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| Jun 28 2011 11:01 | Comment |

Last week, from Bloomberg:

Danske Bank A/S’s mortgage lending unit Realkredit Danmark told Moody’s Investors Service to discontinue its ratings of the company as it creates a separate capital unit for its adjustable-rate mortgages. The Copenhagen-based lender will issue covered mortgage bonds through a new capital center to finance new and existing adjustable-rate loans, it said in statement. Fixed- and variable-rate loans with a rate cap will continue to be funded via an existing capital center, the lender said. Read more

Life on Pandora is challenging

Izabella Kaminska joined FT Alphaville in October 2008. Before that she worked as a producer at CNBC, a natural gas reporter at Platts and an associate editor of BP's internal magazine.

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| May 20 2011 09:44 | Comment |

While the market’s attention was focused on the pop in LinkedIn’s US debut, another recently listed stock was having trouble of a different sort.

On Thursday, shares in Copenhagen-based jewellery maker Pandora — which listed on the Danish market in October 2010 at a valuation of €5bn — closed down more 21.65 per cent at DKK 199: Read more

ISS plans $2.4bn Danish listing

| Feb 18 2011 05:28 | Comment |

ISS, the Danish outsourcing group, is seeking to tap into rising demand among western governments for outsourced services as it prepares for the biggest stock market listing in Europe so far this year, reports the FT. Jeff Gravenhorst, ISS chief executive, told the FT that the group hopes to raise $2.4bn on the Copenhagen bourse, and said other European countries were starting to follow the UK’s lead in welcoming private contractors into the public sector. He highlighted the education and healthcare sectors as offering some of the greatest potential. ISS, owned by Goldman Sachs Capital Partners and EQT of Sweden, is one of the world’s biggest providers of outsourced services such as cleaning, security and catering to the public and private sectors. Its owners said last month they had broken off talks over a proposed $8.5bn sale to Apax Partners, the UK-based buy-out firm, and would pursue a stock market listing. Read more

Armageddon Bank

Tracy Alloway used to be deputy editor of FT Alphaville. Here she learned the details of derivatives, the absurdities of accounting and the various structures of ... erm ... structured finance. She now covers big US banks for the FT paper, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. She pops up on FT Alphaville every once in a while.

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| Feb 17 2011 08:20 | Comment |

Amagerbanken is a small bank in Denmark — but its failure could end up having big consequences for investors in bank debt. It might end up being a relatively rare instance of a bank’s senior unsecured investors (and depositors) taking a hit.

Here’s Ivan Zubo and Olivia Frieser at BNP Paribas with the background: Read more

Snap news

Tracy Alloway used to be deputy editor of FT Alphaville. Here she learned the details of derivatives, the absurdities of accounting and the various structures of ... erm ... structured finance. She now covers big US banks for the FT paper, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. She pops up on FT Alphaville every once in a while.

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| Feb 16 2011 07:52 | Comment |

Breaking pre-market news on Wednesday,

- Sanofi agrees to buy Genzyme for $74 in cash per share – statement. Read more

A senior haircut precedent in … Denmark

Tracy Alloway used to be deputy editor of FT Alphaville. Here she learned the details of derivatives, the absurdities of accounting and the various structures of ... erm ... structured finance. She now covers big US banks for the FT paper, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. She pops up on FT Alphaville every once in a while.

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| Feb 07 2011 13:44 | Comment |

Something is interesting in the state of Denmark.

Over the weekend, Amagerbanken, a smallish Danish bank filed for bankruptcy. Its assets now have to be transferred to Denmark’s bad bank curating-company Finansiel Stabilitet (FS), which has already taken over the assets of a number of failed financial institutions. The Amagerbanken case is special however. Read more

Swedes urge calm after bomb attack

| Dec 13 2010 03:40 | Comment |

Sweden’s prime minister on Sunday urged the country to “stand up for tolerance” after a botched terrorist attack in central Stockholm on Saturday highlighted growing Islamic extremism across the usually peaceful Scandinavian region, reports the FT. Fredrik Reinfeldt condemned the attack, in which a suspected suicide bomber was killed, as an assault that risked inflaming racial tensions in a society with a large Muslim population. The incident followed warnings from Sweden’s security service of the growing threat from Islamic extremists and came amid a Norwegian probe into a suspected terrorist plot aimed at neighbouring Denmark Read more

TDC owners sell down shareholding

| Dec 10 2010 05:21 | Comment |

The head of Danish telecoms giant TDC has insisted he can continue to improve its profitability through cost cutting, as the private equity consortium that controls TDC started to sell down its shareholding, reports the FT. Apax, Blackstone, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Permira and Providence are set to raise as much as DKr21bn ($3.7bn) through a sale and buy-back of shares at TDC. The consortium has sold a first tranche of its TDC shares at DKr51 each. Trading in those shares began on Thursday. TDC has retained a small free float under private equity control, and the shares closed down 5.6% on Wednseday at DKr49.1. Observers said the TDC share decline on Thursday risked undermining confidence in initial public offerings. Lex however says that even though the sellers have had to retain a hefty 60% stake, “the well-priced on-exchange sale should grease the wheels for more like it”. Read more

ISS resurrects $7bn IPO plan

| Aug 26 2010 05:07 | Comment |

ISS, the Danish cleaning, security and catering group, is considering launching one of the year’s largest IPOs in Europe, valuing it at €5bn-€6bn ($6bn-$7.6bn), reports the FT. While reporting solid first-half results, the company, one of the world’s biggest private sector employers with more than half a million staff, said it had hired Rothschild, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to conduct a review that could lead to a sale by its owners – Goldman and EQT, the buy-out arm of Sweden’s Wallenberg family. Bloomberg cites analysts saying it is possible that only a portion of the company may be floated. Read more

Join the euro? The Danes say nej tak…

Tracy Alloway used to be deputy editor of FT Alphaville. Here she learned the details of derivatives, the absurdities of accounting and the various structures of ... erm ... structured finance. She now covers big US banks for the FT paper, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. She pops up on FT Alphaville every once in a while.

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| Jun 24 2010 08:30 | Comment |

A datapoint on the perception of the eurozone — courtesy of Danish bank, Danske:

Statistics Denmark regularly surveys the attitude of the Danes to the euro on behalf of Danske Bank. The June poll shows that the No side has caught up with – and overtaken – the Yes camp, so that it now has a comfortable lead of 11.3pps. This is the largest No lead since we launched our EMU poll in 1999. Looking solely at those who are certain how they would vote, the No side has in fact an even more solid lead. Only 32.1% of Danes polled expect to vote Yes, while 47.8% would be certain No voters – a difference of 15.7 percentage points. Read more

Nordic countries agree €444m in Iceland aid

Tracy Alloway used to be deputy editor of FT Alphaville. Here she learned the details of derivatives, the absurdities of accounting and the various structures of ... erm ... structured finance. She now covers big US banks for the FT paper, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. She pops up on FT Alphaville every once in a while.

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| Apr 21 2010 03:09 | Comment |

Nordic countries on Tuesday gave the go-ahead for up to €444m more aid for Iceland’s stricken economy even as northern Europe counted the mounting cost of travel disruption caused by the eruption of an Icelandic volcano, reports the FT. The Nordic region has been among the hardest hit by ash fallout from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano yet Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland appeared to be in a forgiving mood as they agreed to end a long delay in funding for Iceland’s economic recovery programme. Read more

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. And Ireland. And Spain.

Tracy Alloway used to be deputy editor of FT Alphaville. Here she learned the details of derivatives, the absurdities of accounting and the various structures of ... erm ... structured finance. She now covers big US banks for the FT paper, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. She pops up on FT Alphaville every once in a while.

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| Sep 25 2009 14:10 | Comment |

And the ECB will direct it. Ha.

As we mentioned earlier on Friday, UBS analysts John-Paul Crutchley and Alastair Ryan have been looking at the European banking landscape afresh — specifically in relation to the credit support ops of the European Central Bank. Their findings make for insightful reading. Read more

Hybrid debt attack!

Tracy Alloway used to be deputy editor of FT Alphaville. Here she learned the details of derivatives, the absurdities of accounting and the various structures of ... erm ... structured finance. She now covers big US banks for the FT paper, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. She pops up on FT Alphaville every once in a while.

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| Jun 29 2009 09:44 | Comment |

Oh dear. RBC Capital Markets’ credit analysts have taken an axe to Moody’s proposed reform of its ratings-methodology for hybrid debt.

The agency suggested earlier this month that it is considering altering its approach to assigning debt capital ratings. Currently Moody’s assumes that the hybrid or subordinated debt has implicit state support. However, several subordinated instruments have recently been allowed to suffer losses during the crisis — hence the Moody’s rethink, which in its current proposal would remove the support assumption within Tier 1 debt ratings. Read more

Discussing Denmark

Tracy Alloway used to be deputy editor of FT Alphaville. Here she learned the details of derivatives, the absurdities of accounting and the various structures of ... erm ... structured finance. She now covers big US banks for the FT paper, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. She pops up on FT Alphaville every once in a while.

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| Feb 24 2009 11:53 | Comment |

The Danish rarely cross our minds except in breakfast form, but here’s an exception (HT Credit Writedowns).

COPENHAGEN, Feb 23 (Reuters) – Small Danish bank Fionia (FIONIA.CO) said on Monday it ceded control to the Danish state in return for a 1 billion Danish crown ($169 million) capital injection that keeps it solvent. Read more

Denmark unveils bank loan package

| Jan 20 2009 05:43 | Comment |

Denmark will offer up to Dkr100bn (€13.4bn) in loans to recapitalise its struggling banks and encourage them to restart lending as the country’s economy continues its slide into recession. The political agreement, announced Sunday night, means that Denmark has joined the European mainstream after initially resisting giving banks further help. After weeks of negotiations, the centre-right government announced that all political parties – with the exception of the Left-Green Alliance – had agreed on a second credit package, which should be in place early next month. Read more