Europe
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FIG issuers are taking care to announce deals before opening order books this week, as they try and book their places in the market ahead of a tricky meeting for the European Central Bank on Thursday. -
European equity capital markets continued to reel from volatility across the Atlantic on Friday. A sell-off in tech stocks is making the block trade market difficult and a popular IPO suffered on its first day of trading.
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Goldman Sachs led a bumper week of dollar bond supply this week, as the high-grade market showed its resilience and investors lapped up issuance from a broad array of bank and finance names.
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King’s College London has launched a private placement debt deal, according to market sources: the first UK university transaction for more than a year.
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This week's scorecard looks at the progress Nordic agencies have made in their funding programmes in early March.
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The UK’s monetary policy will officially be designed to fight climate change from now on, after chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak changed the Bank of England’s mandate this week, delighting sustainable finance campaigners.
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The London listing review, out this week, has been hailed as a vital chance for the City to straighten its slipping crown as Europe’s top financial centre.
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Senior market participants welcomed the announcement of the UK Infrastructure Bank’s creation in this week’s Budget speech. While it is unlikely to tap capital markets in the near future, bankers hope the bank will evolve into a major government agency borrower that prints socially responsible bonds to help in the UK’s goal to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
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Italy made its long-awaited green bond debut this week, and set new records for the biggest and longest sovereign green bond.
