Europe
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Jens Peter Leschly Neergaard, global head of international banking at Danske Bank, will retire at the end of this year.
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Underwriters of Banca Carige’s €500m rights issue were jubilant on Thursday, when the results of the deal showed it had attracted about €200m of demand in the open market — almost exactly the amount needed for the banks to avoid having to buy shares, and underlining that the Italian lender has been rescued in an orderly way by private sector investors, a first in recent Italian history, writes Jon Hay. -
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Landesbank Baden-Württemberg became the first European bank to issue a green bond larger than the minimum benchmark size in euros on Tuesday, marking a new milestone in the burgeoning market. Advances in data collection could increase the volume of eligible green assets. By Jasper Cox.
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The year's total issuance of triple-C rated bonds in the European high yield market jumped from €4bn to more than €6bn this week. Many believe this could be the last week to bring new deals in 2017.
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A number of bond traders will do well to remember the last time the Eurodollar market was deemed to be hot. But with four deals in in as many weeks, traders under 30 are having to learn about this market again. This week it was the turn of Toyota to rejoin a market it once frequently used.
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Volkswagen Bank GmbH sold sold its first bond for more than three years this week. The banking services subsidiary of German car manufacturer Volkswagen printed a €2bn triple-tranche deal on Wednesday.
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The City of Vienna’s long-dated loans are three times subscribed three weeks into the marketing process. As investor appetite grows for longer-dated maturities, corporates are beginning to find luck with the product.
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The Austrian subsidiary of Steinhoff issued roughly €650m of Schuldscheine in July 2015 — and, as its shares plunged on Wednesday, over 100 Schuldschein lenders were stuck with little ability to sell the debt. With no majority voting allowed in the Schuldschein market, some question whether the product's lean documentation can cope in headier times.
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Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten on Tuesday printed “another great example” of what bankers said were the “tangible price benefits” of selling SRI bonds. The trade came in the same week that France tapped its famous green OAT — or GrOAT — via auction.
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The likely return of a rare sovereign issuer next week will break the silence in an otherwise quiet market for SSAs in euros, after there were just a smattering of German Lander trades this week. Meanwhile, investors believe that the rising interest rate cycle in the US could have a knock-on benefit for euro borrowers.
