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Guarantor: Financial Market Stabilisation Fund of the Federal Republic of Germany
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Market participants were unimpressed by the European Union's effort at the long end, but the week's other benchmarks fared better.
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The palette of socially responsible investment bonds is expanding. Two borrowers made SRI debuts this week with a social inclusion bond and a sustainability bond, while a third has announced its intention to follow suit.
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FMS Wertmanagement took advantage of the dearth of supply in short dated euro paper to score an extremely tight price for its €1.5bn November 2020 benchmark on Thursday.
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KommuneKredit is set to hit the road for its debut green bond, after mandating banks on Thursday.
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Chinese toll road operator Zhejiang Expressway Co took a road less travelled by Asian companies in the equity-linked market this week. It debuted with a euro-denominated convertible bond, becoming one of just a handful of euro CB issuers from the region in the past decade, writes Jonathan Breen.
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FMS Wertmanagement has picked four banks for a short end euro transaction, making the most of the reopening of an area of the curve that has hosted very little public sector issuance in the past year.
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Zhejiang Expressway Co is breaking the lull in Asia’s equity-linked market, opening books on Wednesday evening for a €365m ($389m) transaction.
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Fears of Marine Le Pen winning this year’s French presidential election may have receded but investors should be hoping that her loss will be to frontrunner Emmanuel Macron — and not to former favourite François Fillon.