◆ Italian bank returns after years of calls but no replacements ◆ Tight pricing cemented on super-scarcity status ◆ Austria’s Bawag gearing to increase capital with new issue and tender
◆ Corporate bond issuers swarm on new measure of success to chagrin of their banks ◆ An utter riot at one end of the credit spectrum for bank debt... ◆ ... while investors take their sweet time at the other end
◆ German real estate lender to print first subordinated note in a decade ◆ Crédit Agricole Assurances copmpletes bullet with no book attrition ◆ Insurer uses proceeds to buy back two perpetual notes
◆ Bank markets NC5 and NC10 dual trancher with a flat curve ◆ Deal follows another long dated dollar AT1 from BNP Paribas ◆ More EM dollar AT1s in the pipe