Barclays
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Sustainability bonds are the flavour of the week for regional issuers, as the State of North Rhine-Westphalia smashed the size record for sub-sovereign SRI bonds on Tuesday and Île-de-France hit screens to announce its own socially responsible investment bond. -
French pharmaceuticals firm Ethypharm increased the sterling tranche in its term loan package on Tuesday, as it seeks to acquire UK-based Martindale Pharma.
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Barclays was met with hot demand for a new additional tier one trade in the undersupplied sterling market on Tuesday, with the trade quickly racking up more than £6bn ($7.35bn) in orders.
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Indian non-bank lender Dewan Housing Finance Corp is back in the loan market with a $125m three year refinancing via two leads.
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Barclays is looking to restart additional tier one (AT1) issuance in the sterling market this week, taking advantage of a lack of supply in the format and strong interest from investors over the course of 2017.
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Novelis’s $1.8bn Asian refinancing of its US term loan B has seen four new lenders come in during syndication, as the leads hold out for several more large commitments.
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The UAE’s Majid Al Futtaim will begin investor meetings in Asia next week for a subordinated perpetual bond, the first from the Middle East this year.
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Spain rode out another volatile day in eurozone government bonds on Wednesday to finish up with a healthy €5bn of 15 year paper from an order book nearly treble that size.
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The UK Debt Management Office (DMO) breezed through the final syndication of its financial year on Tuesday, printing at a record low real yield with its biggest ever book — despite a postponed start to opening books and murmurings about falling demand for inflation linked paper.
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Landesbank Baden-Württemberg and WL Bank successively priced the tightest covered bonds of the year this week and both were able to tighten pricing to a greater extent than any previous German issuer.
