Commerzbank
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A trio of foreign banks tapped an attractive Swiss market this week, finding opportunities to top up their well-advanced funding programmes with a bit of pricing arbitrage. -
Greece and NRW.Bank added to the week’s primary euro public sector supply on Wednesday ahead of a closely watched European Central Bank governing council meeting on Thursday.
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Mondi, a UK packaging and paper company, has signed a €750m revolving sustainability-linked facility, days after completing an acquisition of a Turkish packaging firm.
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Santander and Barclays ended multi-year absences from the Swiss franc market to land a pair of senior deals flat to euros this week as funding diversification trumped arbitrage considerations.
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SMBC Nikko has hired Markus Steilen as managing director and head of continental European debt syndicate, based in Frankfurt, as it expands its capital markets capabilities in the region.
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SMBC Nikko has hired another official from Commerzbank as it builds up its bond business in Europe.
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A trio of firms slipped into the market to place senior paper this week, and with spreads threatening to creep wider, bankers were keen to see lenders make use of the windows available.
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Ryanair, the Irish budget airline, landed a far more solid bond issue this week than shopping centre operator Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) had a day earlier, in an early indication of what the bond market might look like as the worst-hit sectors recover from the coronavirus pandemic.
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SMBC Nikko has hired Markus Steilen as managing director and head of continental European debt syndicate, based in Frankfurt. Steve Apted remains head of syndicate in London.
