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◆ Books peak above €6.9bn ◆ Pricing competitive to food group peers ◆ Proceeds to refinance outstanding debt
◆ Largest Czech bank tightened spread by 8bp ◆ Subsidiary of Erste Group announced mandate on Monday ◆ 'Arithmetically, there is no FV', a banker said
◆ Second biggest Swiss deal from a foreign borrower ◆ Front end takes the largest bite ◆ International issuance in the currency surges in 2026
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With a host of landmark transactions that include the world’s first sustainability-linked loan and the world’s first green digital Schuldschein, Verbund stands out as a pioneering issuer of ESG debt. Most recently, it broke significant new ground by combining normally separate green use of bond proceeds with a sustainability-linked coupon.
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Central banks have become integral to the fight against climate change in financial markets. Participants now expect them to wield their immense influence through many avenues of their work — economic analysis, metrics, supervision, investment and even monetary policy.
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While the initial focus of sustainable finance efforts was largely on environmental action, social factors have grown increasingly prominent in recent years — underscored by the establishment of the Social Bond Principles in 2017. Subsequently, Covid and racial tensions in the US have each highlighted social disparities that are leading issuers and investors to treat diversity and inclusion as key parameters too. -
With sovereign ESG bonds passing a clear inflection point, sustainability-linked bonds seeing notable growth and acceptance, and social bonds catapulted forward by a key borrower — the European Union (EU) — that is also poised to boost the green bonds market with an unprecedented €250bn programme, sustainable debt capital markets are reaching a new peak of activity across the capital structure from every issuer and credit type. So what’s driving the current boom and what will follow it?
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Essentra, the UK speciality fibres and plastics maker, has closed a US private placement deal at $250m.
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Property developer Beijing Capital Development Holding (Group) Co, which is also known as Shoukai Group, was back in the dollar bond market on Thursday after a nearly five year hiatus.
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