The oversubscription trap: Buzz shouldn’t be confused with depth

Here is where the strategist and the lawyer read the same index differently. A legal review asks whether an instrument is valid and enforceable. I press a different question on every client weighing shilling exposure: who buys this from you in year three, and what does it cost you to hedge while you wait? With interbank FX liquidity at the minimum score, a sovereign wealth fund or DFI cannot easily lay off currency risk onshore, so it prices that risk into the yield or buys the hedge offshore at a premium. With close-out netting lacking clear legal footing, international banks cannot obtain the clean netting opinions they need to offer repos and derivatives at scale, so the very instruments that would deepen liquidity never arrive. The weakness in the plumbing is not a footnote to the deal. It is the deal’s cost of capital.

The oversubscription trap: Buzz shouldn’t be confused with depth

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