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The bank tightened a little more than a UAE peer did on Tuesday
The euro tranche is a refi of a bond maturing later in September
Proceeds expected to go towards growth, including expanding what the company says is Africa’s biggest refinery
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Hypo Noe and Prima banka Slovensko competed for investors’ attention with similar sized covered bonds in the same seven year tenor on Tuesday. The Austrian transaction was priced with barely any concession and the higher rated Slovakian transaction was the first debut deal to price with a negative yield and the first from Central and Eastern Europe with a negative yield. -
South Africa made its largest ever trip to capital markets on Monday, raising $5bn across two tranches. However, the size may have been too ambitious as the bonds suffered early in the secondary market. Although they have since recovered, some investors may be deterred from jumping into the rest of the week’s slew of deals.
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Natixis has become the first bank to introduce a green weighting factor to its internal capital model, so that the way it prices loans is skewed to favour environmentally sound assets and disadvantage polluting ones. The ground-breaking move brings to fruition an 18 month project and anticipates what some believe may one day be demanded by regulators.
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Chinese sportswear retailer Topsports International Holdings has opened books for its up to HK$9.4bn ($1.2bn) Hong Kong listing.
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Strong investor appetite for Thai bank capital deals helped Kasikornbank beat expectations with its $800m Basel III-compliant tier two bond.
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Budweiser Brewing Company Apac has raised HK$39.2bn ($5bn) after pricing its IPO at the bottom of guidance, and partially using an increase option. It was the company’s second attempt at listing in Hong Kong.
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