Crédit Agricole
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While many of the main euro issuers have already scored their big January benchmarks, the pipeline of euro issuance is growing increasingly congested, although the range of maturities on offer should allow borrowers to avoid treading on each other's toes. -
France surpassed the expectations of even the most passionate supporters of the green bond market on Tuesday, selling comfortably the largest ever print in the format. Socially responsible investment (SRI) experts believe the deal makes it almost certain that other sovereign issuers will add green bonds to their funding mix.
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The Agence France Trésor has announced the maturity date for the first ever French sovereign green bond, which could be priced this week.
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Fresenius, the German healthcare company that launched the first equity-neutral convertible bond in 2014, returned on Thursday to issue another successful deal, this time to complete the financing of its €5.76bn acquisition of Quirónsalud, the Spanish hospitals group.
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Slovenia reopened the bond market for emerging European issuers in style on Tuesday, with a well-received dual tranche euro deal.
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SpareBank1 Boligkreditt, Aareal Bank and Nordea took advantage of strong demand for five year paper to issue oversubscribed deals this week, paying virtually no new issue concession.
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Shares in Elis, the French bed linen and laundry company, fell 3% on Thursday after it set terms for its €324m rights issue to cut its leverage after buying Indusal in Spain and Lavebras in Brazil.
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Italy on Wednesday produced an almost carbon copy trade of Belgium’s 10 year euro benchmark from earlier this week, printing €6bn as its curve tightened in the background — although with a longer dated bond.
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Bolloré, the French investment company, gave investment grade euro corporate bond investors their first unrated deal of the year on Wednesday, and managed to tighten its pricing by 25bp.
