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◆ Company's first euro bond since 2020 ◆ Peak books top €8.1bn ◆ Defence business angle pulls in investors
◆ 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
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Hong Kong department store chain Lifestyle International Holdings returned to the debt market this week after a two-year break to raise $350m. -
Having visited the euro market last week, Nestlé has bounced quickly into sterling, finding solid demand for a £1bn dual tranche trade on Wednesday.
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Europe’s high grade corporate issuers piled into the bond market during the run-up to this week’s European Central Bank meeting, with Vonovia and JDE Peet’s bringing standout jumbo trades.
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Bond market participants will be on tenterhooks for the European Central Bank’s latest monetary policy decision on Thursday. The rapidity of the European recovery, and the apparent return of inflation have stoked fears that the ECB would begin to discuss tapering its asset purchase programmes.
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Edenred, the French provider of pre-paid corporate vouchers, is the latest European company to sell a sustainability-linked convertible bond, replicating a structure that has become popular in the regular bond market.
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Moody’s has torn up one of the shibboleths of the Schuldschein market — that its borrowers are worthy of investment grade ratings. On Wednesday, the rating agency said a number of borrowers from the car parts sector were overleveraged and not profitable enough. Investors appear to share these worries, but the Schuldschein market offers them little protection and there is no reliable secondary market for them to sell into.
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