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Bank of China (BOC) returned to the bond market with a Belt and Road blockbuster this week, raising around $3.2bn from a multi-tranche, multi-currency deal. Addison Gong reports. -
Asiamoney, in association with National Australia Bank, invites all fixed income investors in Asia and Europe to participate in the Australian Fixed Income Poll 2018. The online poll will take only five to 10 minutes to complete.
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Funding officials said green bonds had stimulated other sustainability work across their organisations at the Climate Bonds Initiative conference in London on Tuesday.
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Swissport, the aviation services group, this week launched a €325m add-on to its euro leveraged loan to finance its acquisition of Aerocare, a peer based in Australia.
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Bank of Ireland is planning to bring the first covered bond from Ireland in over two years, while Overseas Chinese Banking Corporation is lining up a debut trade in sterling.
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Austrian wood products manufacturer Egger Holzwerkstoffe sold its third hybrid capital deal on Monday, with its largest size and lowest coupon to date. At the same time, Brisbane Airport announced plans to diversify its investor base.
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The total issuance of investment grade corporate bonds in February was an underwhelming €14.8bn but the property sector has outshone all others in 2018 and this week was no different as investors had further diversification to consider.
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A tricky market backdrop helped lead to an underwhelming response to a Commonwealth Bank of Australia deal on Thursday, as the lender joined a string of five other financial institutions looking at the floating rate market in euros this week.
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Macquarie Group was offering investors a seven year non-call six senior bond on Monday, in the financial services firm's first euro deal in three years.
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ANZ sold what it said was the first issue of a bond aligned to UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in euros this week, raising €750m of new funding.
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ANZ raised €750m this week from its first bond aligned with the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs), marking only the second such deal globally.
