Crédit Agricole
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Kookmin Bank issued the first sustainability bond from a South Korean financial institution on Tuesday, raising $300m from a deal that was covered more than six times. -
The Autonomus Community of Andalusia received plenty of demand for its first syndication in over seven years on Wednesday, allowing the issuer to increase the size of its deal and tighten pricing.
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The Autonomous Community of Andalusia has mandated banks for what Dealogic data shows is its first syndication since May 2011.
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Islamic Development Bank has picked banks for a roadshow promoting its debut euro denominated sukuk benchmark — for the second time this year.
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Milanese pharmaceutical firm Recordati was out with its CVC buyout funding this week — a €1.3bn bond, in a European high yield market that has mostly ignored Italy’s political fights. But on Thursday, volatility went global and investors started pressing for concessions. Recordati went ahead regardless, and priced on guidance.
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The People’s Republic of China, acting through its Ministry of Finance (MoF), priced a $3bn return to the international bond market, pushing out its maturity profile to 30 years. But a weaker backdrop meant that the order book was not as strong as its dollar trade last year.
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Ireland this week added its name to the growing list of sovereign green bond issuers, achieving one of its main goals as it diversified its investor base. A debut French agency issuer joined the sovereign on Wednesday, printing its first ever deal — which also came from the first ever Green Euro Medium Term Note programme.
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With its latest dollar bond, China's Ministry of Finance may have demonstrated the sovereign’s market access and its credit strength even in a hostile trade environment, but a potential repricing of the China state-owned enterprises (SOEs) curve still seems unlikely, writes Addison Gong.
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Société Générale has made two appointments in its corporate banking teams; one in London, one in Paris.
