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Indonesia’s Star Energy Geothermal found solid investor demand for Asia’s first dollar-denominated project bond of the year. The deal was helped by the issuer’s investment grade rating and a green label that helped reduce pricing. Morgan Davis reports. -
Europe’s investment grade corporate bond market is lining up more mandates, with German companies making up the bulk of new deals announced on Tuesday.
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Société du Grand Paris plans to steam ahead with funding as it announced a doubling of its green EMTN programme and a substantial increase to its 2020 funding programme to help prefund the financing for the next three years of the Grand Paris Express project.
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Risk appetite has returned to the high grade corporate bond market, with UK airport Heathrow and US drinks firm PepsiCo managing to move spreads by around 45bp during execution.
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US banks could be set for an extended hibernation from the dollar market after entering third quarter earnings blackout.
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Egypt this week became the first sovereign issuer in the Middle East and North Africa to issue a green bond. The deal had been delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, bankers said, but it gained considerable traction from investors when it was finally brought to market.
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Bank Nederlandse Gementeen kicked off a busy week for socially responsible bond issuance by public sector borrowers with a well-received 12 year sustainable bond, its longest ever deal in that format.
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The City of Bremen was heavily undersubscribed as it came to the market with an eight year bond on Thursday, in what is the region’s second consecutive public deal that has failed to reach full subscription.
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Europe’s high grade primary market chugged on with a handful of trades on Wednesday, but syndicate bankers acknowledge that supply looks to be muted in what should usually be a hectic period.
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Engineering Group, an Italian IT services company, has returned to market after pulling a deal in June, for a second attempt at taking out the buyout bridge for its acquisition by Bain Capital and Neuberger Berman.
