BNP Paribas
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Flex, the US-Singapore electronic component maker, has signed a $2bn revolving credit facility, in what leads are describing as the first ESG-linked syndicated revolving credit facility for the US technology sector. -
BNP Paribas has hired veteran banker Rahul Mundra to its loan syndication team in India.
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Solid demand from investors for Woori Bank's sustainable bond on Monday allowed the South Korean borrower to price its $550m deal at an ultra-tight spread.
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Indonesia's Tower Bersama Infrastructure took an aggressive pricing approach to a tap of its dollar bond on Monday. But when investor response fell short of expectations, the issuer was forced to pull its fundraising.
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Europe’s corporate bond investors had the chance to pick up some paper from the hairier end of their credit spectrum as this week began, with Portuguese power company Energias de Portugal and Swedish housing firm Heimstaden Bostad out with hybrid capital issues.
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Svenska Handelsbanken has become the latest European bank to put out a call notice for one of its additional tier ones. Market participants are expecting a clean sweep of redemptions for the asset class this year.
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Three of the most active banks in financing oil exports from the Ecuadorian Amazon — an environmentally destructive industry with a long track record of trampling on indigenous people’s rights — have agreed to cease important parts of their financial support, after pressure from NGOs and a devastating oil spill in 2020.
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Four US global banking titans roared out of earnings blackout to raise more than $20bn of debt this week, issuing deals either side of president Joe Biden’s inauguration.
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Europe’s high grade corporate bond investors are sounding the alarm that parts of the market are starting to look frothy, as the European Central Bank on Thursday gave no indication of any slowdown in its relentless bond buying programme. Mike Turner reports.
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Companies in the same sector often copy each other, but this year's string of bond issues by aircraft lessors has been exceptional, and is prompted by the sector's credit rehabilitation. Air Lease Corp took the recovery past a new milestone this week.
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