Credit Suisse
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Kaisa Group Holdings closed a $500m bond this week, part of a liability management exercise. -
Credit Suisse had a great first quarter, if you ignore one or two little hiccups. The firm enjoyed a big uptick in investment banking revenues but senior management is fighting fires lit by the double disasters of Greensill Capital and Archegos Capital.
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Dalian Wanda Commercial Management Group Co sold a sub-one year bond on Thursday, raising $325m.
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Corporate bond issues came at a healthy clip in the US market this week, despite earnings blackouts, as investors showed a preference for highly rated paper.
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When António Horta-Osório takes over as chairman of Credit Suisse on May 1, he will be fighting fires on all fronts. While the bank has a relatively strong capital position, boosted by a $2bn fundraising announced on Thursday, shareholders are demanding answers over strategy and controls. Perhaps more ominously, the Swiss regulator Finma has instigated enforcement proceedings, writes David Rothnie.
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Revenues at Credit Suisse’s investment bank are up 80% year-on-year amid a boom in capital markets business, but the fallout from the firm’s dealings with Archegos Capital and Greensill Capital meant that the group reported a net loss of Sfr252m (€476m).
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The Province of Ontario ended an absence of almost four years from the Swiss franc market this week to land a 12 year note at fair value. Elsewhere, Valiant Bank and Pfandbriefbank kept the domestic market ticking over with a handful of covered deals.
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Europe’s corporate bond market hosted a debut sustainability-linked bond and two multi-part trades this week, despite overall issuance winding down as earnings season gets under way.
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Iberdrola, the Spanish utility, has signed a €2.5bn sustainability-linked loan, becoming the first Spanish company to use risk-free rates as a benchmark instead of Libor.
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Credit Suisse has placed Sfr1.7bn ($1.9bn) of mandatory convertible bonds to repair its balance sheet, following steep trading losses caused by the bankruptcies of Archegos Capital and Greensill Capital. But some predict the bank may need to return for more equity down the line.
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Danfoss, a Danish engineering firm, and UK bottling company Coca-Cola European Partners found the biggest demand at longer maturities in their multi-tranche bond issues on Wednesday, as inflation fears fade from Europe’s corporate debt market.
