Crédit Agricole
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Wendel, the French investment group, issued a €300m no-grow on Monday. This was a typical size for the issuer, but it was its first issue for two and a half years. It will use the money to exercise options to call and make whole on its 2020 and 2021 bonds.
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Santander’s S3 business is set to join up with Crédit Agricole’s CACEIS, as the two banks look to merge their custody and asset servicing operations, a growing area of revenue for banks.
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Islamic Development Bank and Qatar National Bank hit the market for dollar paper on Wednesday, scooping up funds ahead of Ramadan.
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Bank of America has hired for its hybrid capital structuring team from Morgan Stanley.
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Industrial and Commercial Bank of China raked in the equivalent of more than $2.2bn on Tuesday across four tranches of notes in three different currencies.
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Despite the very attractive conditions in Europe's corporate bond market in recent weeks, some less regular issuers have missed out on them because they were scared off by the rough markets at the beginning of the year.
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Islamic Development Bank is expected to raise $1.5bn with a five year sukuk on Wednesday.
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Shinhan Bank of South Korea managed tight pricing on its Basel III-compliant tier two deal on Monday. Investors overwhelmed the $400m transaction with orders that covered the book more than seven times at its peak, thanks in part to its rare 10 year tenor but also as a result of its status as Asia’s first dollar-denominated UN Sustainable Development Goals-linked bond. Morgan Davis reports.
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Auchan, the French supermarket chain, issued its second bond of the year on Tuesday, but the first since Standard & Poor's downgraded it in March to BBB-, leaving it on a negative outlook, after a weaker than expected trading performance in 2018.
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The Islamic Development Bank has announced initial price thoughts for a five year sukuk dollar bond — its first since a euro benchmark in November 2018.
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South Korea’s Shinhan Bank sold Asia’s first dollar-denominated UN Sustainable Development Goals-linked bond on Monday, raising $400m from the Basel III-compliant tier two deal.