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Transition finance in transition — companies face investors in flux

Demand to invest in the low carbon transition is growing fast, but strategies are very diverse
Issuance net of buy-backs is not that high, and there is no sign of any indigestion

Caffil lands social covered bond as market ‘comes off the boil’

◆ Order book smaller than issuer’s last covered in January ◆ Banker said covered bond market has reached plateau ◆

AI impact fear rocks IPO hopefuls

Questions hang over the future of software as a service firms
Issuance net of buy-backs is not that high, and there is no sign of any indigestion
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  • Investors have got a fever, and the only cure is more pharma. Biotech equity issuance is surging, in line with rising stock prices in the secondary market, as stock pickers pan for the company that will cure Covid-19, among other maladies. But this is more speculating than investing and many are going to catch a cold chasing around a risky sector that is starting to look a lot like the dot-com bubble.
  • Freeline Theraputics, the UK gene therapeutics company, has filed to list in the US on the Nasdaq exchange, continuing the trend of biotech companies seeking to raise capital in the equity capital markets.
  • The Covid-19 pandemic is forcing many governments to expand their borrowing programmes. The table below details the impact of the outbreak on the funding requirements of major sovereign bond issuers.