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Last week’s tightly priced bond issue by KfW has inspired a slew of issuers to print three year dollar notes this week, a banker said. The Asian Development Bank was first off the blocks on Tuesday with a new benchmark, and Export Development Canada and Erste Abwicklungsanstalt are set to follow. -
Romania entered a crowded euro bond market on Tuesday, with 12 and 30 year papers. The deals may be among the last euro issues from the emerging markets before the summer lull.
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Posco, the South Korean steel firm, has sold its first sustainability bond, raising $500m and attracting investors to its solid investment grade credentials.
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Corporate bond issuance in Europe has slowed, though demand remains strong, as evidenced by new issues on Monday for A2A, the Italian multi-utility, with a debut green bond, and Logicor, the warehouses group. Bankers expect appetite to remain steady but for the pace of issuance to be more sedate than in recent weeks.
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Oil and gas firm Ithaca Energy is to issue a new $700m unsecured bond as part of the financing for its acquisition of Chevron’s North Sea assets.
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The Asian Development Bank is set to return with its second dollar benchmark of the year later this week.
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Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane, Italy's state railway company, launched a €700m seven year green bond into an otherwise empty corporate bond market on Thursday. The Independence Day holiday in the US kept markets quiet this week, and eager investors may be frustrated next week too.
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Israel sees long dated issuance as an important part of its ‘strategic issuance plan’, according to sources in its Ministry of Finance. Last week, the sovereign returned to the market for a second time in 2019 to extend its euro curve by 20 years, placing its first ever 50 year note through a private placement
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Following on from Barclays’ Kangaroo return last month, two more foreign banks looked towards the Australian market on Wednesday. Toronto Dominion Bank placed its inaugural bail-inable Kangaroo and BNP Paribas printed its first Australian dollar AT1 note.
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Budweiser Brewing Company Apac cracked open its up to HK$76.4bn ($9.8bn) Hong Kong IPO this week, set to be the city’s largest listing in nearly a decade and the world’s biggest so far this year, with early investor orders coming in thick and fast. Jonathan Breen reports.
