Banks
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In a rare sign that environmental campaigners are having an impact on the financial industry, the burden of financing the Ecuadorian Amazon oil trade has shifted between banks in the past six months. But it is clear the banking industry is supporting the trade in more ways than have yet been uncovered. -
HSBC appoints two within AIBC — Credit Suisse Asset Management hires head of origination in direct lending — Richard Luddington joins Rothschild
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Austria, Greece and Iceland all received huge order books for their first syndicated bonds of the year, coming hot on the heels of a European Union jumbo dual-tranche sale earlier in the week.
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The European Union continued where it left off last year as it returned to the bond market this week with another jumbo deal that attracted a huge order book for the first deal of the year under its Support to Mitigate Unemployment Risks in an Emergency (SURE) funding programme.
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Europe’s corporate bond investors had the chance to pick up some paper from the riskier end of their credit spectrum as the week began, with Portuguese power company Energias de Portugal (EDP) and Swedish housing firm Heimstaden Bostad out with hybrid capital issues.
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Steven Wirth is joining HSBC to head real asset fund coverage, and Giulio Hoffmann is to jointly lead power, utilities and renewables (PURE) for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
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Iceland was awash with demand in the euro market on Thursday, allowing it to comfortably sell its biggest bond in euros since 2014. But it was a far different outcome for the Joint Laender, which failed to achieve full subscription.
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Real estate companies are some of the biggest borrowers in Europe this year, with loans for Valor Real Estate and QuadReal Property, a UK/Canadian property joint venture, and Supermarket Income Reit adding to the pile this week.
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Ambu, the Danish medical equipment company, has raised Dkr1.3bn ($212m) via the sale of new stock to fund a deleveraging of its balance sheet.
