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Citi is preparing a four tranche high yield deal to fund the creation of ‘Trivium’, a new metal packaging company, owned by Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan and formed from a $2.5bn spin-out from Ardagh, combined with its Exal business. -
Tobam, the French asset manager, is ensuring its fixed income portfolios have carbon footprints at least 20% smaller than those of their reference benchmarks, extending a policy already in place for equity portfolios. It is focusing on the carbon footprint of issuers, rather than individual issues, meaning that it would ignore the specific environmental qualities of a green bond.
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Package holiday group Thomas Cook said on Friday that it was discussing a deal with Chinese conglomerate Fosun Group, its largest shareholder, about a capital injection and a debt for equity swap.
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Blue chip Hong Kong issuer New World Development Co has priced a 10 year bond worth $950m, after the leads decided to start bookbuilding at a generous level to build momentum.
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Amundi and the European Investment Bank are collaborating on a new €1bn fund aimed at bringing the benefits of green bond funding to smaller issuers in the EU and those with weaker credit quality. They will originate deals through a network of banks.
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If A1/A+ rated BASF was worried its credit rating would drop, S&P Global has given it some good news. On Thursday, the agency said it expected the chemical producer's Monday profit warning to have only a moderate impact on Its credit ratings. But a gloomy outlook still hangs over the chemicals sector, and companies in the low triple-B band may well have a tougher time in the bond market.
