AXA pays up despite huge ECB backstop
AXA Bank successfully issued the first covered bond eligible for the European Central Bank’s newly established €750m Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme (PEPP) on Thursday. But, despite the ECB’s much increased firepower, the bonds still offered a pick up of around 30bp and the funding would barely been possible without the central bank's support.
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