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The Cover and GlobalCapital held the annual Covered Bond Awards Dinner on Thursday night at Casa Llotja de Mar in Barcelona, celebrating the best performers in the market. -
A hundred investors managing $1.8tr of assets have signed a letter calling on banks to say more about how they are managing the risk of climate change, and to publish a strategy saying how they support the goals of the Paris Agreement.
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Strong short end dollar demand led a host of issuers to print tight deals this week, including one debut. Investor appetite is expected to stay strong, but bankers are sceptical that there will be much supply.
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Investors scrambled for yield in the dollar bond market this week as Concho Resources printed its debut investment grade offering amid nearly $19bn of other corporate offerings.
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Kommuninvest kept up this week’s trend for tightly priced short end dollar deals as it achieved its tightest ever spread to swaps on Thursday. Big demand for short dollar paper is creating a “bid-only” market, according to bankers.
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UK telecoms group Virgin Media was in the market for a £200m add-on of its 2024 receivable financing notes on Monday. By Wednesday, it had sold £450m of the deal, proving that demand is not restricted to the high yield debt market for euros, where three more deals were under way.
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Slovenia is once again borrowing in euros to fund a buy-back of its dollar debt as it looks to cut its liabilities in the currency. This is the borrower’s sixth such transaction over the course of two years.
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Kommuninvest is set to complete a trio of three year dollar benchmarks from SSAs this week, after Nordic Investment Bank comfortably priced in the tenor on Wednesday.
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Extendable maturity covered bonds are looked on more favourably by issuers and rating agencies than they used to be. But some think issuers should have limited power to extend maturities at their discretion.
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Japanese telecoms company SoftBank has done it again. On Tuesday, it replicated its 2015 success of a €4.5bn bond issued outside of the US high yield market with a new €4.75bn issue.
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Bayer, the German life sciences company, took one more step towards full separation from Covestro, the plastics company it span off in 2015, when it launched another block trade on Tuesday night for around €1.2bn of the company.
