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Banco Popular Español postponed a sale of its second additional tier one (AT1) deal after launching the deal into a sell-off in the AT1 market that became progressively worse over the course of the morning. The Spanish bank was looking to issue the transaction at a level market participants said was surprisingly aggressive. -
Europe’s corporate bond market was knocked sideways on Thursday by a gust of fear about peripheral Europe, after problems deepened at Portugal's Banco Espírito Santo. The market has not shut down, but ACS, the Spanish construction company, pulled a deal and no issuer managed to price tighter than its initial thoughts.
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Private healthcare group Générale de Santé will hold a bank meeting this week for a €1.1bn loan to back its takeover by Ramsay Santé.
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The Inter-American Development Bank took advantage of strong demand for dollar paper this week to sell its largest dollar benchmark, while Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten also visited the market, suggesting that appetite remains robust despite many investors getting ready to embark on summer holidays.
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The Republic of Iceland returned to euro syndications for the first time since 2006 this week, with a €750m six year bond that was almost three times oversubscribed and priced at the tight end of guidance. The issuer has plenty of time to consider its next move — its next redemption is in two years’ time.
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Three issuers launched covered bonds this week with varying results, which suggested that the converging trend between core and peripheral Europe has stalled. Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS) struggled to attract anything like the demand seen in its previous covered bond as Portuguese woes outweighed the programme’s rating upgrade into investment grade territory.
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A heavyweight agency is set to print a debut green bond next week, having thrown its hat into the green financing ring this week by mandating banks for an innovative deal that uses a state of the art format to allow investors to record the impact that their money is having.
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DBS Group, the holding company of Singapore’s DBS Bank, returned to the dollar market on Wednesday with a surprise $1.25bn dual trancher. Although the issuer had launched with only a five year fixed rate bond, it added a five year floater during execution after healthy investor appetite.
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Asian bond issuers just can't get enough of the euro market. This week it was the turn of India's ONGC Videsh to tap the currency, but it did so in unexpected fashion, launching a dual tranche dollar deal and tacking on a debut euro leg late in the process. From a pricing perspective, the tactic looked to have paid off — and the $2.2bn-equivalent deal was India's biggest G3 issue, writes Virginia Furness.
