Europe
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Dollars was the favoured currency for public sector borrowers for the second week running this week, giving attractive funding conditions for euro borrowers amid strong investor demand, particularly in the 10 year part of the curve. -
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Italy completed the sale a five year BTP Italia on Thursday for a record breaking size of €22.297bn to finance measures related to the Covid-19 pandemic. Demand for the product was boosted by the Franco-German EU recovery fund proposal.
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A Pln700m ($168.9m) selldown of stock in Play Communications, the Polish telecommunications company, has shown that investor appetite towards some emerging market stocks is still alive, despite the asset class being hit hard during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Credit Suisse’s plan to launch a private credit opportunities fund has been undermined by a spying scandal, the departure of Jim Amine, and Covid-19, writes David Rothnie.
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Nick Darrant, JP Morgan's head of CEEMEA debt capital markets syndicate, is leaving the bank after five years to join Citigroup as co-head of EMEA syndicate.
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Bank balance sheets are set to expand and Intesa's will be no exception. It will mean an an increased reliance on central bank funding. But apart from this, the Italian bank's mix of funding is likely to remain unchanged from February with the emphasis on regulatory capital. But as Alessandro Lolli, head of group treasury and finance told GlobalCapital, the bank has great flexibility in navigating its capital raising during the pandemic.
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The gush of central bank repo-eligible supply in the covered bond market has reduced collateral protection by more than 50 percentage points, in some cases. And with a precipitous drop in the pace of mortgage production likely to follow, investors will be obliged to discriminate between issuers that commit to maintaining minimum levels of overcollateralisation (OC) and those that don’t.
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Whitbread, the parent of Premier Inn and Beefeater Restaurants, has unveiled plans for a £1bn rights issue tp bolster its balance sheet following mass disruption in the hospitality industry during the Covid-19 pandemic, which has forced the closure of pubs and hotels in the UK.
