As part of his cover, Bond must pretend to marry a local girl, Kissy (Mie Hama), who is, in fact, another of Tanaka's agents.
Credit ratings—assessments of the likelihood that an issuer will default on the interest or principal due on its bonds now shoot through the market at internet speed and cover bond issues of all kinds.
The American board said it expected the rule to cover bonds as well as loans, but some details remained vague and were likely to be fleshed out after the two boards considered public comments.
Continental would add $1.7 billion of debt to the $5.8 billion already on its balance sheet; this would cover bonds earmarked for new terminals at airports like Houston Intercontinental and Newark, N.J.
Before covering social networking at VentureBeat, she covered bond markets in London during the financial collapse in 2008.
Indeed, markets have already responded before the E.C.B.'s covered bond program has begun.
A bank makes a loan, keeps the loan on its books and issues a covered bond.
Ongoing covered-bond purchases by the ECB are useful, though perhaps less efficient than ABS.
And the covered-bond and ABS markets are simply too small.
FINANCIAL TIMES Further Covered Bond Activity Offers Relief | A fresh round of covered bond deals on Tuesday allowed European banks to raise more than $8.7 billion, adding to a similar result last week that ended a two-month drought in the sector.
Like many German banks, Hypo partially finances its operations using the covered bond market, and now represents 10percentt of the market.
