Euromoney, August 2016
It was a long time coming, but India’s masala bond market – that is offshore rupees – is finally underway. An upsized Rs30 billion ($446 million) three-year bond from HDFC last month marks the first such deal from an Indian bank or corporate, almost a year after the financial conglomerate started looking at the deal.
It is a landmark but it may not tell us too much about the future of this market. This is because the deal appears to have been an opportunistic play on rates and foreign exchange rather than one based on the fundamentals either of credit or the market itself.
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