Banks
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Hyundai Capital Services used the green label on its dollar bond to its benefit when hitting the market on a relatively volatile day, managing to find about $4.75bn of demand for a $600m transaction.
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Mainland-based Jinxin Fertility Group raised HK$1.27bn ($163.5m) in fresh equity on Monday after issuing a chunk of new shares.
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Mongolian Mortgage Corp (MIK), which was forced to pull its dollar bond last month after sudden political upheaval in the country, returned to the market on Monday to raise $250m.
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The Singapore Exchange has sold a €240m zero coupon convertible bond, its debut equity-linked issue and the first CB from a stock exchange globally in eight years.
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UniCredit’s decision to align the definition of a defaulted receivable mortgage loan with the issuer's internal classification will have a negligible impact on the quality of the cover pool, said Moody’s.
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Whitbread, the UK hospitality group, has mandated banks for a debut green trade, setting up a pricing battle between a red hot bond structure and a Covid-19 battered sector.
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The euro public sector bond market has got off to a busy start to February. Three eurozone sovereigns have announced syndicated issues, while the European Financial Stability Facility made a €2bn intraday tap on Monday to round off its first quarter funding target.
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The World Bank will be the latest public sector borrower to hit the long end of the dollar curve after mandating banks on Monday for a new 10 year benchmark, taking advantage of the increased investor appetite for this maturity as a result of the higher yields on offer.
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Tyco Electronics, the US-Swiss connector technology firm, kicked the week off in Europe’s high grade corporate bond market with a well received deal on Monday, as more euro issuers line up.
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IDB Invest, the arm of the Inter-American Development Bank that lends to the private sector, is preparing to roll out a sustainable debt programme which could lead to it issuing all its future bonds in this format.
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Intermediate Capital Group, the UK alternative asset manager, has signed a £500m revolving credit facility based on Libor, but with provisions to change to risk-free rates when the old benchmark falls out of use.
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Met Group, the Swiss energy trading company, has signed €915m of short term loans, reducing its facility for the first time for years, after ABN Amro, one of its main lenders, pulled out of this kind of financing. Met found two other banks to replace ABN but wanted to focus on price with the deal, rather than size.