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US drugs specialist Catalent Pharma on Tuesday began offering its debut euro bond to investors as it sought funding for its acquisition of peers Pharmatek and Accucaps. -
Italy’s bond yields hit their highest levels at auction since June 2015 at the country’s final bond sale before Sunday's constitutional reform referendum that could lead to the resignation of prime minister Matteo Renzi.
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The Italian Treasury is on Tuesday set to hold its last bond auction before the country holds a referendum on constitutional reform that analysts believe could have an impact on eurozone periphery spreads into the new year.
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The European Commission’s package of bank regulation measures, released on Wednesday and now dubbed ‘CRD V’, will ease regulations that threatened to mean ‘game over’ for the European repo market.
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Export-Import Bank of China hit the debt market on Wednesday, bagging €2bn (US$2.1bn) in the largest euro deal from a Chinese borrower to date. While DCM bankers say that there’s little opportunity for arbitrage, Chexim benefited by reaching new investors. Morgan Davis reports.
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Chinese issuers stormed the primary debt market on Wednesday with Export-Import Bank of China, China Aluminum International Engineering Corp (Chalieco) and Changsha Pilot Investment Holdings Co among the borrowers attracting bids.
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The euro market for public sector borrowers repoened on Tuesday as a pair of issuers took advantage of calmer conditions since the US election on November 8 to raise nearly €2bn in total — both paying small new issue premiums.
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The Asian debt market stepped up a gear Tuesday with a number of new launches and mandates, as issuers navigate the volatility and try to wrap up their fundraisings before key holidays and the end of the year.
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Agence Française de Développement on Monday mandated banks for what is set to be the first euro benchmark from a public sector borrower in nearly a month.
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The European Commission will propose on Tuesday a package of measures to make the reporting and disclosure requirements for banks more 'proportional', meaning easier for smaller institutions to comply with the rules.
