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BBVA launched a senior non-preferred bond in the euro market this week as activity slowed after a busy period for new FIG issuance. The €1bn trade attracted orders of €1.8bn and gave investors a small new issue premium, according to a syndicate banker. -
CaixaBank launched a non-preferred senior bond linked to social causes on Tuesday, while Raiffeisen Bank International launched a green preferred senior bond. Both deals were heavily oversubscribed on a day that one banker described as 'ridiculously busy'.
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De Volksbank was three times subscribed for its debut green bond this week, despite not offering much in the way of yield or new issue premium to its investors.
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Credit Suisse was marketing a 10 year bullet senior bond on Tuesday, avoiding negative yields by choosing a tenor longer than seven years. At the same time, Sparebank 1 announced it was readying its green debut in senior format.
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Louis Dreyfus Asia has boosted the size of its annual borrowing to $650m from $500m after receiving commitments from 31 lenders.
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FIG bond investors are showing signs of become more risk-averse at the beginning of August, with bank bond spreads widening amid questions about the health of the European economy.
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Cofco International, a commodities trading unit of China’s agri-products company Cofco, has increased its sustainability-linked loan to $2.3bn after receiving commitments from 21 lenders.
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Royal Bank of Canada and Credit Suisse turned to the euro market this week to launch bail-inable senior bonds, testing market conditions amid European earnings blackouts and before an expected break for the summer.
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Shandong Qingyuan Group Co, a Chinese petrochemical company, has made a quick return to the loan market with a $750m syndicated facility, six months after closing a club deal.
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Louis Dreyfus Asia has priced its $500m three year revolving credit facility at the same level as its last loan from 2018.
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A public sector debt capital markets banker is returning to NatWest Markets, where she worked between 2010 and 2017, GlobalCapital understands.
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US-based energy trading firm Castleton Commodities International has signed $2.775bn of loan facilities, with European banks making up a large part of the group.
