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Higher rates from the outbreak of the war have enhanced callable MTNs' yield appeal
Varied issuance in senior credit this week, including blue and green bonds, as ultra-long vanilla duration returns in SSA private placements
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Impending European regulation and potential rate hikes made bank MTNs fashionable among money market funds this week, with La Caixa, Intesa Sanpaolo, Crédit Agricole, Santander and Rabobank all placing deals with UK and European buyers.
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Libyan links have turned investors off Italian credits, CP bankers said this week. Investors have spent the past month stuffing themselves with Italian and Spanish bank CP but are now only interested in Spanish fare.
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Ravenous French money market investors starved of short end bank paper jumped on short dated private placements this week. Floating rate notes linked to Eonia (Euro Overnight Index Average) offered protection from short term rates volatility while puttable structures were also popular.
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A burst of activity from French money market funds allowed banks to sell short-maturity MTNs this week. Investors looking to protect themselves from short term rates volatility bought Eonia-linked notes while others bought puttable floating rate notes.
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Favourable euro/dollar and euro/sterling basis swaps kept issuers and investors happy this week, as financial institutions offered juicy yields on short dated dollar and sterling denominated paper at cheaper all-in costs.
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Caja Madrid this week took advantage of increased demand, particularly from French money market investors, flooding the market with Eu522m of issuance in three to six month maturities, against only $90.44m equivalent in maturing trades, according to Dealogic.