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Cost of printing a five year bond has fallen a long way since October
The bank is considering bond issuance in currencies other than the euro
◆ Intesa Sanpaolo's Slovakian arm is a frequent issuer ◆ Banker said 33bp could be through FV ◆ CEE covereds offer the widest spread, ABN wrote

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  • The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China’s offshore debt regulator, has denied considering a ban on bonds with maturities of under one year, giving the market some relief. But confusion and worry remain, writes Addison Gong.
  • China’s Ministry of Finance sold Rmb5bn ($755.5m) of offshore RMB bonds on Thursday, and managed to keep the coupons of the two tranches below last year’s levels. But analysts say the sovereign’s success was limited by a modest fundraising target, which partly reflects the shift of focus to onshore Chinese bonds.
  • The Hong Kong Stock Exchange’s revolutionary change to its listing regime for biotechnology companies is starting to pay off, as the pipeline of pre-revenue firms looking to go public builds. But there are numerous challenges ahead, not least in understanding the sector and the risks involved. Jonathan Breen reports.
  • Inke priced its Hong Kong IPO at the low end of expectations on Thursday to raise HK$1.2bn ($152.9m), amid investor jitters about a China-US trade war.
  • A handful of deals from Bahrain and the CIS region is all there is to keep emerging markets loans bankers busy over the next six to eight weeks, with many already heading off for summer breaks as volumes and near term pipelines dwindle to almost zero.
  • Defaulting Caribbean sovereign Barbados could end up forcing a 50% principal haircut on bondholders in its restructuring, said Exotix on Wednesday, as investors worried that an overly aggressive approach from the island nation would see it lose market access for the foreseeable future.