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Shares in Delta Lloyd, the Dutch insurance company, fell 10% on Monday after it announced a €1bn rights issue to strengthen its solvency as it plans for new EU insurance regulation. By Thursday, they were 29% down. -
Austrian oil and gas company OMV emerged on Monday with a dual tranche hybrid bond that had been promised since August, but a broader revival for the product may have to wait until next year.
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Luxembourg-based airport services provider, Swissport, sold €690m of high yield bonds on Thursday to fund its acquisition by Chinese private equity group HNA.
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Anticipation that the European Central Bank will extend its public sector purchase programme on Thursday resulted in what one banker called an “abnormally successful deal” from Erste Abwicklungsanstalt on Monday.
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Erste Abwicklungsanstalt is lining up to issue its first public euro bond since October 2013, which is set to be priced before next week's European Central Bank meeting.
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SEB Germany offered the lowest ever yield for a primary covered bond when it issued a three year public sector Pfandbrief on Tuesday. But some sort of positive return was necessary, even if it was minuscule.
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MasterCard, the US credit card payments company, raised €1.65bn on Monday with its first euro bonds — and only its third bond issue ever.
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Danone returned to the corporate bond market on Monday for the second time this year, with a €750m 8.5 year bond.
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Azelis, the Antwerp-headquartered speciality chemicals distributor, had commitments due at 5pm Thursday for its seven year euro term loan, having flexed the pricing on all first lien debt.
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Swissport, the air cargo handling company, has removed the US dollar tranche from its €1bn equivalent (Sfr1.145bn) debt package for its acquisition by HNA, a Chinese private equity firm.
