Europe
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Rail travel will be the centrepiece of the Belgian government’s green bonds, the framework for which was revealed on Thursday morning at meetings in Brussels. -
The euro SSA market reacted with commendable calmness to the Dow Jones’s worst day in six years on Monday but moves in the secondary market on Thursday showed that “vol isn’t dead”, according to one head of SSA DCM.
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The UK Debt Management Office (DMO) this week rounded out its syndication programme for the 2017-18 financial year with another deal that met with acclaim. Unlike several of its last few deals, the UK did not build a record book — but that development may have helped sway a debate over the future of its syndication programme.
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Credit Bank of Moscow and Domodedovo Airport (DME) brought the total Eurobond tally of Russian issuers this year to seven this week. Those latest two issuers jumped in shortly after Directive 1 sanction fears were quashed by the US Treasury.
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Despite heavy volatility in the equity markets, in fixed income, public sector bond issuers had an excellent week. A cool €10bn hit the market in tenors from five to 15 years and from all parts of the spectrum within the asset class. Lewis McLellan reports.
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Real estate investment trust (Reit) issuance is rising in private debt markets, as spreads compress and borrowers look to lock in long term debt before expected interest rate rises.
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RusHydro, the Russian hydroelectric power generator, issued the first local currency Eurobond of 2018 with a three year note on Thursday. Bond bankers said that internationally cleared local currency bonds would gain increasing traction this year.
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UK media company Entertainment One has tapped its outstanding 6.875% bonds due 2022 for £70m ($97.6m), as the company looks to snap up the remaining stake in the television studio Mark Gordon Company that it does not already own.
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Moldovan agro-industrial holding company Trans-Oil Group is looking to make its capital markets debut. The deal will be the first ever from a Moldovan corporate — and with no outstanding bonds from the sovereign, investors will have a lot of price work to do.
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Deutsche Bank plans to put up to 40 bankers at director level and above in its EMEA investment banking division at risk of redundancy, including the bank's co-head of FIG DCM, GlobalCapital understands. Several of those put at risk were based in Birmingham, including the bank’s head of Europe-US private placements.
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After being sidelined by volatility in the equity market this week, Greece made it to market on Thursday with a €3bn seven year.
