A group of experts headed by the governor of Ireland’s central bank, Philip Lane, recommends that a sovereign bond-backed securities (SBBS) market should be set up within the eurozone in order to relax the link between a country’s sovereign debt and its national banking sector.
“In principle, the design of sovereign bond-backed securities could facilitate the diversification and de-risking of sovereign bond portfolios without mutualising sovereign risks in Europe”, Lane (who will be...