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ZF Friedrichshafen is targeting the end of August to launch its grand return to the Schuldschein market, according to people with knowledge of the situation. The German car parts maker’s €2.2bn issue in November 2014 is the biggest deal the market has ever seen but a bigger deal may be on the way. -
German housing company Gewobag has closed a Schuldschein in the next few days with well over €1bn of orders, in a transaction that could be the largest of this year so far.
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Volumes are growing across the spectrum in the Scandinavian MTN markets, as issuers and bankers return from their summer holidays. Meanwhile, bankers are expecting Scandinavian investors to move further out along the credit curve in response to negative yields as dovish Nordic central bank tones could lead to a bullish Scandinavian market.
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BUUK Infrastructure, a UK utilities firm formerly called Brookfield Utilities, has sold US private placements, according to market participants.
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Newport City Homes (NCH) has sold a £95m private placement to Legal & General, as housing associations soldify their position in the private debt market.
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Green Schuldscheine have been a peripheral feature of the market for the past three years but this seems to be changing, with a billion plus transaction from Porsche and a sustainability linked note from Durr stirring investors into a frenzy. This green turn could have more of an impact for short term market growth than the odd non-European borrower tapping the market.
