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Sovereign Debt Managers Forum Breakout Session 1: Market Dynamics in International Capital Markets for Sovereign Debt By C J P Siriwardena Assistant Governor Central Bank of Sri Lanka 04 December 2014 1 Outline 1. Global Developments 2.

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Sovereign Debt Managers Forum

Breakout Session 1:

Market Dynamics in International Capital Markets for Sovereign Debt

By C J P Siriwardena Assistant Governor Central Bank of Sri Lanka 04 December 2014

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Outline

  • 1. Global Developments
  • 2. The Case: Sri Lanka
  • 3. Final Remarks

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  • 1. Global Developments

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Sovereign Debt Managers are under tremendous stress after Global Financial Crisis….

  • Advanced Economies

Source : World Bank

  • Emerging Economies (Asia)

Source : Reuters

  • Emerging Economies – Latin America

Source : Reuters Source : Reuters

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 Brazil Russia India China South Africa

Gross Govt. Debt to GDP Ratio (%)

2006 2013

  • BRICS Economies

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 Argentina Chile mexico Uruguay Columbia

Gross Govt. Debt to GDP Ratio (%)

2006 2013 50 100 150 200 250 USA UK France Spain Italy Japan Germany

Central Govt Debt as a % GDP

2006 2013 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

Malaysia Sri lanka Indonesia Phillipines Thailand Pakistan Vietnam

Gross Govt. Debt to GDP Ratio (%)

2006 2013

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Unconventional Monetary Policies pumping excessive funds into the international capital market…

  • USA – Quantitative Easing

– QE 1 (Dec 2008- June 2010)

  • Fed’s holding of agency mortgage-

backed securities (MBS) and agency debt increased from US$ 800bn to US$ 2.1 trillion.

– QE 2 (from Aug 2010 – June 2011)

  • Fed announced the purchase of

$600 bn longer dated treasuries, at a rate of $75 bn per month

– QE 3 (From September 2012)

  • Open-ended commitment to

purchase mortgage-backed securities per month until the labor market improves "substantially”. Started with US$ 40 bn per month and increased to US$ 85bn per month.

  • The Fed ended its monthly asset

purchases program (QE3) in October 2014

  • EU Area – Quantitative Easing

– The ECB commenced purchasing covered bonds and is expected to purchase asset-backed securities of Euro 1 trillion.

  • UK – Quantitative Easing

– March 2009 – January 2010

  • Purchased around £165 bn in

assets as of September 2009 and around £175 bn in assets by the end of October 2010. – November 2010

  • BOE increased total asset

purchases to £200 bn – October 2011 – July 2012

  • Total amount of QE is around

£375 bn

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Unconventional Monetary Policies (cont…)

  • Japan – Quantitative Easing

– The Bank of Japan (BOJ) is set to continue its QE programme and announced commencing 2015, the BOJ will increase its balance sheet by 15 percent of GDP per annum (US$ 700 bn) and will extend the average duration of its bond purchases from 7 years to 10 years

  • China –Qualitative Easing

– The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) reduced its benchmark

  • ne-year loan rate by 0.4

percentage point to 5.6% and cut its benchmark one-year deposit rate by 0.25 percentage point to 2.75% in November 2014 – The Central Bank of China in September and October of 2014 launched a “medium-term lending facility”, injecting around yuan 769.5 billion to the economy.

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Advanced economies are experimenting with near- zero interest rates…

1 2 3 4 5 6 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 %

US Federal Funds Policy Rate

0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 5.0

1/1/2006 1/1/2007 1/1/2008 1/1/2009 1/1/2010 1/1/2011 1/1/2012 1/1/2013 1/1/2014

%

EU Refinance Rate

  • 0.1

0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6

1/1/2006 1/1/2007 1/1/2008 1/1/2009 1/1/2010 1/1/2011 1/1/2012 1/1/2013 1/1/2014

%

Bank of Japan - Overnight Call Rate

2 4 6 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 %

Movement of LIBOR Rates

LIBOR - 3M LIBOR - 6M LIBOR - 12M

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Most EMs have improved their macroeconomic management during the last decade increasing their ability to access international capital market…

  • Major improvements include;

– Higher and sustainable growth rates and rising per capita incomes – Lower inflation – Higher investment – Better fiscal management – Better debt management – Increasing external reserves by generating surplus in BOP – Improved sovereign ratings

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Most EMs improved the supply-side of debt management too…

  • Mainly improving risk management;

– Lowering Rollover risk by extending the maturity profile – Lowering market risk by reducing floating rate debt – Lowering debt stock by improving fiscal operations

  • Improving infrastructure for secondary market operations
  • Strengthening the public sector balance sheet making more

resilient to market shocks (interest rate and exchange rate risks)

  • These improvements have further encouraged foreign

investors to invest in EMs securities

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EMs sovereign bond issuances in international capital market increased during the post GFC period…

  • More EMs joined the “International borrowers’ club” to raise cheap

funds

  • Size of the issue and number of issuances gradually increased
  • EMs borrowings of US$ 500 bn from international capital market

during 2010-2012 period (IMF estimates)

88.0 83.1 101.3 97.6 106.9

85 87 99 94 92 50 60 70 80 90 100 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 YTD Number of Issues US$ Bn

EMs Sovereign Bond Issues

Total amount raised per year (USD bn) Number of Issues per year

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Demand-side factors also contributed to the rapid increase of EMs borrowings…

  • Fund managers in international capital markets are

searching for higher yields as yield in AEs are at near zero levels

  • Central Banks running with excessive reserves are

diversifying portfolios

  • Encouraging EMs to access cheap funds by

investors/international banks/advisers

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But, Fed Tapering led to substantial turmoil in the international capital market…

  • US dollar and US Fed rate are still

playing a benchmark role in international capital market

  • Ben Bernanke’s statement on the plan of

tapering on 22 May 2013

  • Immediate response of adjusting

interest rates upwards in global markets

  • Severe impact on some of EMs

The Indian rupee (INR/USD) The yield – 10 yr US Treasury bonds The Indonesian rupiah (IDR/USD)

22/05/2013 22/05/2013 22/05/2013

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2. The Case: Sri Lanka

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Sri Lanka too brought in prudent policies in sovereign debt management in the last decade…

  • More dynamism to the secondary market development;
  • Scriptless Securities Settlement System (SSSS)
  • Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) System
  • Lowering fragmentation in the government securities market
  • Improved Primary Dealer system
  • Pre announcement of the auction calendar
  • Electronic trading system
  • Narrowing trading spread
  • Introduce necessary regulations for efficient market operations
  • Expansion of the investors base
  • Tax free secondary market operations
  • More issues of on-the-run bonds at the primary market
  • Develop a more active yield curve
  • Continuous awareness campaigns
  • Electronic Trading Platform with Bloomberg (soon)

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Sri Lanka too brought in prudent policies in sovereign debt management in the last decade…(cont.)

  • Brought in sovereign rating process by inviting all three

Ratings agencies (S&P, Moody’s, Fitch)

  • Prudent risk management practices
  • Lowering rollover risk by extending maturities up to

30 years

  • Reducing interest rate risk by reducing index bonds

and short term debt

  • Lowering exchange rate risk through improved

macro management

  • Lowering borrowing through fiscal consolidation
  • Expand the investor base, both local and foreign

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Main drivers encouraging SL to access the international capital market are…

  • To maintain high investments and high growth rates
  • To crowd-in private investment
  • Declining concessionary funding from multi/bi-lateral

sources

  • Improved macroeconomic conditions
  • Improved sovereign ratings
  • Limited resources in the local market at reasonable rates
  • Availability of cheap funds in international capital markets
  • Ability to raise funds from international markets at

reasonable costs

  • Improvement of the pay-back capacity of the country

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SL government has entered the International capital market through…

  • Issuing sovereign bonds (foreign currency) in

the international capital market from 2007 and

  • Opening local currency denominated securities

market for foreign investors from 2006

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SL reported significant improvement in debt management in the recent past…

  • Gradual increase of maturity

profile of Treasury bonds up to 30 years

  • Sharp Increase of ATM of domestic

debt portfolio

  • Yield curve extended and

downward shifted

  • Debt burden was substantially

reduced

Year

2008 2010 2014

ATM (yrs)

2.17 2.10 5.97

102.3 90.6 87.9 85 81.4 86.2 81.9 78.5 79.2 78.3 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

Debt/GDP (%)

Domestic

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SL successfully managed sovereign bond issues in the international capital market…

  • Extending the maturity and lowering the cost of borrowing in

international bond issues

Year of Bond issue Size (US $ Mn.) Term (Yrs) Yield (%) 2007 500 5 8.250 2009 500 5 7.400 2010 1000 10 6.250 2011 1000 10 6.250 2012 1000 10 5.875 2014 1000 5 6.000 2014 500 5 5.125

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SL Expanding the international investor base and access all key international markets…

Year of Bond issue

  • No. of Global

Investors* Regional Share (%)* Type of investors* Asia Europe US Fund Managers Banks Others 2007 135 30 30 40 n.a n.a n.a 2009 269 24 31 45 78 8 14 2010 362 23 25 53 85 8 7 2011 315 27 30 43 86 8 6 2012 425 27 29 44 90 6 4 2014 287 32 22 46 81 14 5

  • The format of all sovereign bond issues were Reg. S/144A type

approaching global investors

* At primary issues

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SL opened the local currency debt market too for foreign investors with a cap…

  • Gradual opening process;

– Initially opened only 5% of T-bond market in 2007 – T-bill market opened in 2007 limited to 5% – Increased the cap to 10% in 2009 after careful risk assessment – Since 2011, cap limited to 12.5%

  • Strict policy to keep cap at low and manageable level despite heavy

demand from foreign investors

  • Close monitoring and managing process
  • Discouraging “hot money” type investors
  • No significant outflows even after the announcement of US

Tapering and sharp reduction of interest rates in the local market

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  • 3. Final Remarks

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Debt managers need prudent systems to manage demand side risks…

  • Demand side factors are beyond the control of

debt managers

  • Major demand side risks include;

– Rollover risks – Interest rate/exchange rate volatility

  • Pre-mature withdrawals disturbing both;

– Yield curve in local currency market – Pressure on exchange rate in local forex market

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Managing demand side risks need…

  • Need more cautious approach of issuing sovereign bonds and
  • pening local currency G-sec to foreign investors
  • Maintaining external short term exposure at tolerable level
  • Maintaining sufficient levels of liquidity in the secondary market

(vibrant secondary market)

  • Improve absorption capacity of the forex market
  • Close monitoring mechanisms for inflows/outflows
  • Better understanding about the type of investors in the portfolio
  • Expand and diversify the investor base
  • Regular investor updates and close dialog with global investors
  • Proper assessment about risk absorption capacity of the local

economy (tolerance level)

  • Build-up spaces in all sectors in the economy to absorb shocks

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Thank You

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