Released on: March 12, 2008, 12:43 am

Press Release Author: Bharat Book Bureau

Industry: Financial

Press Release Summary: This new book guides you through the legislation, structures
and investor opportunities, ensuring you understand these new developments across
Europe and North America. Europe\'s leading participants guide you through the trends
and future developments in these dynamic markets

Press Release Body: The research report “Covered Bonds and Pfandbriefe:Innovations,
Investment and Structured Alternatives”
(http://www.bharatbook.com/detail.asp?id=7825) provides the…..

This new book guides you through the legislation, structures and investor
opportunities, ensuring you understand these new developments across Europe and
North America. Europe\'s leading participants guide you through the trends and future
developments in these dynamic markets

The covered bonds markets are rapidly expanding in terms of issuance, geographic
reach and the launch of new structured alternatives. New issue volumes exceeded
€130bn by mid-October 2005 alone.

Covered bonds are now being issued in new juisdictions across emerging Europe. The
UK and the Netherlands are developing their own alternatives. The US and Canadian
markets are poised for development.

Don\'t be left behind!

This new book guides you through the legislation, structures and investor
opportunities in covered bonds, ensuring you understand these new developments
across Europe and North America.

Europe\'s leading covered bonds participants guide you through the trends and future
developments in these dynamic markets.

This is the FIRST AND ONLY book to help you:

appreciate the development of the covered bonds market and its participants;

identify the trends in issuance, credit liquidity and pricing issues;

master the legal and regulatory framework surrounding these instruments;

understand the types of issues permitted including:

regulations covering the asset pool,

investor protection,

the treatment of derivatives and

risk weighting

stay up-to-date on the emerging covered bond regimes in the Baltics and Eastern
Europe;

gain an extensive knowledge of the structured covered bonds developing in the UK
market;

learn about US and Canadian investment in covered bonds.

A comprehensive compendium.

Learn from the following specialists:

* Dr. Louis Hagen, General Manager, Association of German Pfandbrief Banks *
Jonathan Golin * Jackie Ineke, Sarah Barton and Michelle Bradley, Morgan Stanley
* Julia Hoggett, DEPFA BANK plc * Ted Lord, Barclays Capital * Fritz Engelhard,
Barclays Capital * Nicholas Lindstrom and Saul Greenberg, Moody\'s Investor
Services * Stig Tørnes-Hansen, Jens Kristian Kimper and Klaus Kristiansen,
Realkredit Danmark * Regina Koelsch, UBS * Bernd Volk, HVB * Arjan Verbeek,
Barclays Capital * Florian Hillenbrand, HVB * Anthony Whittaker and Ralf
Grossmann, IXIS * David Balai, HBOS * Otmar Schwarz, SEB * Alexander Heinrich,
Fortis * Frank Will, RBOS * Otmar Stöcker, Association of German Pfandbrief
Banks

Your step-by-step guide to the legislation on covered bonds across the European
jurisdictions.


Find out what makes for a successful European covered bond market.

Let the experts explain a well-balanced and detailed view of issues affecting the
markets, including:

the impact of Basel II on covered issuance and investment;

the perspective of issuers and investors;

the development of the secondary covered bond market (including the jumbo model and
electronic-trading); and

guidance on issues involved in rating covered bonds.

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