Danske Bank
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The Danish Financial Supervisory Authority has warned that banks would face trouble accessing funding in international markets if there were to be a repeat of the kind of money laundering scandal that has gripped Danske Bank, the country’s largest lender, in the last year.
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Danske Bank was set to complete its bond sale on Friday at a slightly higher price, after activist investor Bill Browder forced a delay due to his comments about its money laundering scandal this week. Before the postponement, Danske had drummed up a large amount of support in the dollar market, as UniCredit did earlier in the week.
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Danske Bank is waiting until activist investor Bill Browder gives a press conference before deciding whether to proceed with the sale of a senior non-preferred bond. News of the conference derailed the deal on Wednesday, after final terms and a $3bn size had already been set.
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Danske Bank offered its senior non-preferred bond to dollar investors on Wednesday, after UniCredit raised $3bn in the format the day before.
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Danske Bank has hired DNB Markets’ JoJo Thirasilpa as a managing director in leveraged finance.
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Kongsberg Gruppen, a Norwegian supplier of technology systems to the offshore oil and gas sector, has finished a Nkr5bn (€513m) rights issue with a healthy level of oversubscription.
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Adform, the Danish advertising technology company, will brave difficult markets to list on Nasdaq Copenhagen this November.
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Wednesday will be debut day in the green bond market, with Ireland preparing a 12 year inaugural euro benchmark and Société du Grand Paris (SGP) out with a 10 year that will also be its first bond issue of any kind. Both must contend with a market backdrop rife with Italian politics-driven turbulence, although SGP’s deal has so far had what one lead called “one of the strongest starts I’ve seen for a French issuer”.
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The Danish Financial Supervisory Authority has increased Danske Bank’s capital requirements for a second time following an investigation into money laundering through its branch in Estonia. The scandal-stricken lender said on Thursday that it was ending its share buy-back programme to comply with the new targets.
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Three more credit default swap contracts are referencing non-preferred senior bonds following the latest roll of the iTraxx indices, as bank debt investors try to deal with a gradual transition towards a bail-in regime in Europe.
