Crédit Agricole
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Two CEEMEA issuers, Egypt and Hungary's Mol, are in the market this week to raise funding. According to experts, issuers are eager to get their funding in before expected geopolitical and coronavirus-related volatility impacts markets. -
French semiconductor maker Soitec has returned to the equity-linked debt market with a new €325m five year convertible bond, after a rally in its share price since March.
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The Arab Republic of Egypt has mandated banks to arrange its debut green bond, which will be the first sovereign green bond from the Middle East and North Africa. The deal, according to bankers, has been in the works for over a year and has been delayed by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Swedish Export Credit Corporation took full advantage of the quiet SSA market to print a three year dollar benchmark on Wednesday. Ontario Teachers Finance Trust is set to follow on Thursday.
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China Merchants Bank raised $700m from a dual-tranche transaction on Tuesday, marketed by two different overseas branches with two different structures. But the issuer ran into negative market sentiment that dented appetite for the deal.
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CCB Leasing’s plans to raise $500m were scuppered after markets tanked and investor sentiment took a hit on Monday. The Chinese firm was forced to adjust its expectations for a smaller $300m bond.
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Green and sustainable finance is going through tumultuous change, as it crashes into the mainstream of capital markets, said speakers at the GlobalCapital Sustainable and Responsible Capital Markets Forum last week. They emphasised the importance of tying financing to credible transition plans.
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Banks and insurance companies were falling over one another to issue green bonds this week, with deal arrangers seeing ESG labels as near infallible ways of bringing pricing through fair value, write Tyler Davies and David Freitas.
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Caisse d’Amortissement de la Dette Sociale (Cades) and the International Development Association set new size records this week, with the former bringing the biggest ever social bond in dollars and the latter issuing its biggest ever bond since entering the capital markets in 2018.
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Amadeus IT group, the Spanish travel technology company, and German logistics company Kion Group offered corporate bond investors the chance to pick up riskier debt on Thursday, as the demand for higher yielding securities drives large parts of the primary market.
