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• Garanti Bank prints gender bond MTN

  

  Turkey’s Garanti bank has sold its first ever social bond, a $75m private placement. The International Finance Corporation purchased the bond as part of its Banking on Women Programme.

  • 14 Jun 2018

• Garanti Bank prints gender bond MTN

  

  Turkey’s Garanti bank has sold its first ever social bond, issuing a $75m private placement. The bond was purchased by the International Finance Corporation as part of its Banking on Women Programme.

  • 13 Jun 2018

• April MTN volume drops off cliff after strong start to the year

  

  The first quarter of 2018 was the strongest for MTN issuance across all sectors in three years, but the non-consolidated data for April looks disappointing so far.

  • 03 May 2018

• JPM resumes selling Qatari MTNs as diplomatic stalemate drags on

  

  Qatar National Bank has printed two dim sum bonds through JP Morgan, a bank whose commitment to Qatari issuers has been under scrutiny since the Middle East diplomatic crisis erupted in June 2017.

  • 13 Mar 2018

• Qatar bank returns to MTN market

  

  Doha Bank Qatar has sold a yen clip through MUFG, its first since June when the country became embroiled in a regional diplomatic spat. The trade is illustrative of a gradual return by investors to Qatari credits, said MTN bankers.

  • 06 Dec 2017

• EPPF’s first issue a ‘revolution’ for DCM

  

  The European Private Placement Facility (EPPF) has completed its first bond issue, which those involved say is the start of a “revolution” in debt capital markets.

  • 04 Dec 2017

• Growth in US prime MMFs ‘not yet significant’

  

  Flexible investors are returning small amounts of money into prime funds after the mass exodus experienced following money fund reform, according to a Moody’s report. However, a managing director at Barclays believes this is not yet a significant trend.

  • 03 Nov 2017

• Mizuho picks up MTN veteran

  

  Mizuho has hired Julie Edinburgh to fill a new position: head of vanilla MTNs.

  • 28 Sep 2017

• QNB turns to Taiwan for cash

  

  Qatar National Bank has secured $630m with a structured Formosa bond to prove it is still able to access funding despite the sensitives surrounding the Qatar crisis.

  • 14 Sep 2017

• EU escapes US MMF reform fate

  

  The European Union’s rules to improve the resilience of money market funds came into force on Thursday. Investors expecting similar consequences to those which followed the US reform can breathe a sigh of relief.

  • 20 Jul 2017

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