Crédit Agricole
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Soaring demand and tight spreads lured repeat borrowers as summer dollar bond supply soared with $34bn of new issuance crammed into four days. -
China Great Wall Asset Management Co reopened bond supply from the country's bad debt managers this week with a tightly priced $500m deal.
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HSBC Holdings has launched a tender offer for nine short-dated senior securities in dollars as it looks to optimise its liability structure for the total loss-absorbing capacity (TLAC) requirements. The announcement followed a dual-tranche senior deal in the same currency.
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Overcollateralisation (OC) levels have increased on covered bond pools since last year for European issuers, Fitch Ratings said this week. But while issuers in some countries, like the UK, showed a rise above the average, borrowers that have participated in central bank funding, like those in Germany, have managed to keep OC levels down.
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The Loan Market Association is not looking at producing documentation for social revolving credit facilities, adding to the likelihood that the first-of-its-kind Covid-19 facility for Suez last week will remain a rarity in the market.
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Suez, the French utility, signed what it claims to be the first ever social revolving credit facility, using elements of green and sustainability-linked financing to create a new Covid-19 era structure to mitigate some of the financial fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.
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Phoenix Pharmahandel, the German pharmaceutical company, issued a five year euro-denominated bond on Wednesday, as pharma companies across the credit spectrum continue to hold investors’ attention.
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Korea South-East Power Co (Kosep) has printed a $300m sustainability bond, in part to tackle the impact of Covid-19, becoming the third issuer from the country to tap the socially responsible investment market this month.
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German pharmaceutical company, Phoenix Pharmahandel (Phoenix Group), held investor calls on Monday after mandating banks for a sub-benchmark sized offering in euros. The deal is the latest stab at funding by a pharmaceutical company — a sector which has lured greater numbers of investors thanks to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Saudi Arabia has secured its inaugural green loan backed by an export credit agency (ECA). The deal, which is the first of its kind in the region, may have a domino effect on other sovereigns in the Gulf, said bankers.
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Wordline, the French payments company, has returned to the equity-linked market to sell a new five-year €600m convertible bond at a negative yield.
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