COVID-19: COVERED BONDS & MORTGAGES AS ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS FOR A SUCCESSFUL RECOVERY

Covered bonds are among the safest and most reliable long-term financing instruments in use in Europe. The industry is therefore keen to provide solutions addressing the economic recovery of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, for example via public sector covered bonds, European Secured Notes (ESN) and energy efficient mortgages. The author reports in great detail on the efforts by the European Mortgage Federation - European Covered Bond Council (EMF-ECBC). In a nutshell, the EMF-ECBC seeks to …