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The UK sold its last syndication of the financial year on Tuesday, selling a £2.25bn 2051 index linked bond — its first syndication in the format since November 2019. -
Snam, the Italian gas pipeline company, and SKF, the Swedish ball bearing maker, kicked the week’s corporate bond new issuance off in Europe on Monday with deals that offered razor-thin spreads from the start.
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The European Investment Bank and Caisse d’Amortissement de la Dette Sociale (Cades) took centre stage in the public sector dollar market this week, ahead of the Lunar New Year, with EIB selling its first 10 year benchmark in the currency since 2015.
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Unlike its last syndication in January, when Spain lost over €75bn of orders after an aggressive move in pricing, the sovereign took a more cautious approach on its return to the public market this week to print its biggest ever 50 year bond.
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CTP, the Dutch logistics real estate company, did away with its usual bond marketing routine and went with a one day execution on its latest deal on Thursday, as the company reckoned on the green label and the sector it operates in being enough to get investors on board.
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Ecobank Nigeria, part of the pan-African banking group Ecobank Transnational, was set to raise dollar debt in the bond market on Wednesday, underscoring investors' appetite for exposure to sub-Saharan Africa.
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Chinese cloud-based communications provider Cloopen Group Holdings saw its stock price triple on the first day of trading, after sealing a $320m IPO above the marketed range.
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Baidu has become the latest technology company from China to tap the loan market, breaking a four-year absence from syndication for a $3bn transaction. The company wants to take advantage of the growing popularity of tech deals among bank lenders. Pan Yue reports.
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The European Investment Bank became the latest SSA to hit the unusually popular 10 year dollar bucket on Tuesday, raising an impressive $4bn. The European supra was joined at five years by a jumbo trade from Caisse d’Amortissement de la Dette Sociale.
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Galaxy Pipeline Assets Bidco, an investor consortium that leased pipelines from Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) last year in a partnership deal, sold a $3.9bn senior secured dual tranche bond this week, just months after raising $4bn.
