Europe
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Standard Chartered will commit at least $1bn of financing for companies that provide goods and services that can be used to fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. -
Mondi, the paper company based in the UK and Austria, raised €750m on Friday to refinance its €500m bond maturing in September, and put some extra cash by in case of trouble, with a bond issue that it went ahead with on a down day for equities, even as some other companies opted not to issue.
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GlobalCapital may not have been able to celebrate its Equity Capital Markets Awards in person with the winners this year but we are no less delighted to be able to reveal who they are and those winners are no less deserving for it. We fully intend that the dinner will return next year but for the meantime, here are some of the highlights from this year’s crop. Our congratulations to all.
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The Covid-19 pandemic is forcing many of Europe's sovereigns to expand their borrowing programmes. This week's funding scorecard looks at the changes European sovereigns have made to respond to the crisis, and the progress they have made in their funding programmes as we approach the end of the first quarter.
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Toronto Dominion Bank attracted a slightly larger order book for its three year dollar covered bond on Friday than Bank of Nova Scotia did for a similar deal issued on Wednesday. Both deals offered a considerable pick-up to where they would have been expected to be priced in euros, but the overall spread outlook remains a subject for hot debate. At the same time on Friday, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce was set to issue a ‘blow out’ three year Swiss franc deal.
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The euphoria that infused Europe’s corporate bond market from Tuesday to Thursday has cooled somewhat, although investors are still open for business. Bankers had said on Thursday that Friday would bring an interesting crop of deals, but there is only one, for paper company Mondi, rated Baa1/BBB+.
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Some investors are moving cash out of the sovereign, supranational and agency bond sector and looking to deploy resources in high grade corporate credit, thanks to improved valuations in that sector and the threat coronavirus poses to sovereign debt sustainability.
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Market participants are already questioning the legitimacy of new ‘expected loss’ accounting rules, with the eurozone, the UK and the US having all now softened the application of their standards for banks during the coronavirus crisis.
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GlobalCapital is pleased to reveal the winners and nominees of its 2019 Equity Capital Markets Awards.
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Unusual or less traditional ways of trading bonds — via electronic platforms and exchange-traded funds — look set to come out well from the recent market turmoil.
