New dawn for peripheral Europe as BES €750m breaks open senior debt

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New dawn for peripheral Europe as BES €750m breaks open senior debt

Bankers proclaimed renewed investor confidence in the eurozone this week as Banco Espírito Santo (BES) printed the first public senior unsecured deal from a Portuguese bank in more than two and a half years, setting investors’ hearts aflutter with a racy 6% yield, writes Tom Porter.

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