Crédit Agricole
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A trio of firms slipped into the market to place senior paper this week, and with spreads threatening to creep wider, bankers were keen to see lenders make use of the windows available. -
Europe’s high grade corporate bond issuers had a tough week in the primary market after inflation fears sent investors fleeing risk.
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Europe’s high grade corporate bond issuers had a second tough day running on Thursday, as secondary spreads inched wider and investors proved lukewarm to new issuance.
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Eurostar, the company that runs trains through the Channel Tunnel between London and Europe, has signed a £250m commercial financing package, months after it begged the UK government for bailout funding.
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Europe’s corporate bond buyers shied away from riskier deals on Wednesday as equity markets plunged, leaving a junk rated hybrid from SES to limp over the line while other credits fared better.
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KKR, the US private equity firm, has agreed to buy John Laing in a cash deal that values the UK infrastructure developer at £2bn. KKR will fund the purchase using a mix of equity and debt.
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Ryanair, the Irish budget airline, landed a far more solid bond issue on Tuesday than shopping centre operator Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield had a day earlier, as both companies try to recover in sectors ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic.
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CDP Financial, one of Canada's largest public pension asset managers, joined three other public sector borrowers in the dollar market on Tuesday to sell its debut green bond.
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CaixaBank extended its social bond curve with a non-preferred senior deal on Tuesday, raising €1bn with what was its first deal since it completed a merger with Bankia in late March.
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Property developer China Vanke Co brought a rare investment grade-rated corporate deal to the offshore renminbi (CNH) bond market on Monday, pricing the deal inside its dollar curve after a warm response from investors.
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Europe’s high grade corporate bond investors had an array of novel trades to consider on Monday, with debutants and a rare antipodean issuer marketing euro transactions.
