Constructive conservatism

Germany's Pfandbrief issuers are getting ready for the new law that comes into effect in July. Now they, potential new issuers and an increasingly diverse investor base are focusing on the opportunities that the revised regulatory regime may provide. Will the new legislation help to hasten the internationalisation of the asset class?

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“ALL CONSERVATISM IS based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are,” said the English writer GK Chesterton. “But you do not. If you leave a thing alone, you leave it to a torrent of change.”

He could almost have been talking about the German capital markets. The Pfandbrief market has certainly been subject to a torrent of change.

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