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Agence Française de Développement has placed a €205m clip maturing in 2037, exceeding the length of its previous longest trade in the currency by five years. -
Two more public sector borrowers are set to add to the flurry of socially responsible investments dominating the upcoming SSA pipeline late in the year.
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Fridays were once a no-go for new issue markets, but in recent years that mentality has changed and in recent weeks we have seen corporates price some sizeable bond deals. This week looks set for more of the same.
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With the benchmark corporate bond market pausing ahead of Thursday’s European Central Bank meeting, Deutsche Bank has sold its second sole-led sub-benchmark deal of the week — a €150m 10 year new issue for the property subsidiary of Casino, the French retailer.
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Poland’s Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego (BGK) printed a €750m long 10 year bond on Tuesday from a book of more than €1.1bn and with only a 3bp new issue premium.
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Has Europe’s corporate bond market ever been hotter than today? Perhaps, but Monday’s four investment grade deals totalling €7.4bn offered ample evidence of extraordinary demand — not least, what is believed to be the most tightly priced corporate hybrid capital issue ever, for Danone.
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Agence Française de Développement will go on tour to market its newly established climate bonds programme in preparation for a euro deal with a tenor between five and 10 years.
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Just three months after Nestlé last extended its corporate bond curve, the Swiss food group is back in the market. On Friday it pushed its range of maturities even further.
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Bond market views vary as to what European Central Bank president Mario Draghi will announce after Thursday’s ECB meeting. However, corporate bond syndicate desks are all very clear about the rude health of the new issue market.
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The scores have been counted and the results are in. The BondMarker voters have delivered their verdict on last week's crop of benchmarks, including a scintillating pair of deals from supranationals. Two deals from French agencies met with drastically different levels of approval from the BondMarker voters, but both fared better than Land NRW.
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