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◆ Europe's corporate bond market braces for US tech issuance surge ◆ Canada makes move for EU regs equivalence but to what end? ◆ Middle East private placements here to stay... but will take up less room
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September redemption cash and shortage of supply support investor demand
Private placements may have hung around much longer than first expected but their dominance may be at an end

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  • Singapore’s United Overseas Bank issued a A$500m ($362.2m) bond in Australia on Friday, as a lack of financial paper in the market drove investor demand.
  • In this round-up, China wants to improve the quality of domestic listed firms to cut down financial crime, Shenzhen opens the door for increased foreign inflows for the next five years, and Standard Chartered applies to the securities regulator to set up a securities firm onshore.
  • Banco Hipotecario, the Argentine bank focussed on mortgage and consumer loans, will swap nearly 47% of its dollar bonds maturing on November 30 for new 2025s and cash. Fitch says it understands the central bank — which in September announced restrictions on hard currency debt refinancing — has approved the deal and that Hipotecario will be able to access a sufficient amount of dollars to carry out the swap.
  • SRI
    The European Commission has bowed to lobbying by investors and delayed compelling them to follow the detailed requirements of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation — a complex reporting task that is ill-matched with another EU rule, the Taxonomy of Sustainable Economic Activities.
  • Fiverr International has become of the latest Israeli software company to tap the US convertible bond market for financing during the pandemic, raising $400m.
  • Converge ICT Solutions, an internet service provider, has bagged Ps25.2bn ($521.1m) from its Philippine IPO after pricing the stock just off the bottom of the marketed range.