Danske Bank
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Ireland opened 2018 with a €4bn print deemed “spectacular” by a banker away from the deal, who said that it was priced flat to the sovereign’s curve. -
Ireland is set to become the first SSA borrower of 2018 to print a syndicated bond, picking banks for a benchmark deal to be sold on Wednesday. The German state of Lower Saxony will also come to market on Wednesday.
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Jens Peter Leschly Neergaard, global head of international banking at Danske Bank, will retire at the end of this year.
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A Nordic bank has picked a new global head of SSA origination, with the previous holder of the position set to switch to a newly created, SRI focused job within the bank.
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Irish headquartered US energy technology company Johnson Controls sold the shortest corporate bond deal of the week on Tuesday, tapping into the pool of investor money looking for a safe option into the end of the year.
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The three corporate bond issuers who sold new issues in euros on Tuesday offered something short, something intermediate and something long. The shorter tranches benefitted from the most interest.
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TCM Group, the Danish kitchen maker, has priced its initial public offering on Nasdaq Copenhagen, at Dkr98 a share, giving it a market cap of Dkr980m (€132m).
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The financial institutions bond market showed "discipline" this week, said market participants, with investors refusing to pile into every new deal amid a flurry of supply.
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Jyske Bank followed Danske Bank into the euro market for senior unsecured debt this week. But the product could soon become a rare sight in Denmark.
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Three European banks chose Tuesday to offer senior bonds as issuers took advantage of a period of market stability. Danske Bank and Landsbankinn HF both offered notes in euros, while National Australia Bank (NAB) issued in sterling.
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A rush of consolidation has swept through Europe’s payments processing industry in the past six months and the financing for two of the deals, the acquisitions of Nets and Paysafe, hit the leveraged finance market this week.
