Crédit Agricole
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After selling €4.6bn of loans in March, Unilever Spreads unveiled the €1bn high yield bond portion of its leveraged buyout funding package on Wednesday. But as well as jumbo deals, other borrowers with smaller offerings are also vying for investor attention. -
Australian property company Stockland was the first Australian issuer to sell a green bond in Europe in 2014. The company finally returned to the euro market on Thursday, but chose not to go with a green bond, on the same day as compatriot Ausgrid chose to price its new deal.
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After several weeks of focusing on conventional bonds in core currencies, SSAs popped back into the socially responsible investments (SRI) market this week. Nederlandse Waterschapsbank (NWB) is laying the ground for an affordable housing bond in euros, while the European Investment Bank found a solid reception for a Climate Awareness Bond that came in rare seven year dollar form.
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The Republic of Indonesia sealed an opportunistic dual-currency bond on Tuesday, quickly taking advantage of positive sentiment following a ratings upgrade from Moody’s.
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German residential property company Grand City Properties brought its third corporate bond deal of 2018 to the market on Tuesday, while the return of seed company Syngenta with a jumbo multi-tranche deal neared.
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French shopping centre operator Unibail-Rodamco said in December it planned to sell around €2bn of bonds to refinance the bridge loan it has taken on to fund its $15.7bn acquisition of its Australian peer Westfield Corp. On Monday, it brought the deal to market and received reassuring demand.
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A decent start to the week gave way to caution as escalating geopolitical concerns slammed the brakes on US high-grade dollar supply.
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Two SSA borrowers printed euro benchmarks on Thursday, rounding out one of the strongest weeks of issuance in the currency of the year.
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European high yield bond issuers roadshowed for seven lower rated new offerings this week, leaving behind the quiet of the post-Easter recess. What followed was a vigorous tug of war over pricing and terms in which bankers and investors claimed different victories.
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French aerospace and defence company Thales took a proven route to success when it sold a new dual tranche deal on Thursday, combining short dated floating rate notes with a fixed rate offering.
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Bank of China (BOC) returned to the bond market with a Belt and Road blockbuster this week, raising around $3.2bn from a multi-tranche, multi-currency deal. Addison Gong reports.
