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Tight funding levels and an abundance of investor cash made for brisk MTN issuance in 2025. The story may change in 2026, with public market issuance named as one factor that could crowd out private placements. But a broadening Asian bid for MTNs offers hope for the market, writes Diana Bui
Investors show demand for short-dated FRNs from FIG and corporate credits in private and public formats
Aroundtown and Toyota tap private markets as public supply winds down
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Iberian financial institutions continued their run of good fortune in the commercial paper market this week, successfully rolling over large maturities even as volatility in interest rate and money market futures drove some investors to the sidelines.
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AGENCY borrowers — newly crowded out by the European Financial Stability Facility — are steeling themselves for more than Eu40bn of competing supply implicitly guaranteed by the eurozone’s reference sovereign, Germany.
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In what could become a growing trend for the Italian FIG market, Intesa Sanpaolo sold a pair of identical Eu125m one year puttable floating rate notes through Crédit Agricole on Wednesday, after self-placing a similar Eu288m two year deal on Monday.
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Moody’s has assigned a provisional foreign currency rating of A3 to CIMB Bank’s proposed $1bn multi-currency EMTN programme. The signing of the programme would make CIMB the first Malaysian financial institution to tap the European MTN market, according to data from Dealogic.
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Improved investor sentiment towards Spanish and Italian banks last week shows no sign of abating, with Iberian financial institutions continuing to issue large pieces of commercial paper to meet sizeable upcoming maturities, despite a growing volatility in interest rate and money market futures driving some investors to the sidelines.
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FMS Wertmanagement, the German agency set up to manage the unwanted assets of Hyporealestate Group, has signed a Eu40bn multi-currency ECP programme, arranged by Royal Bank of Scotland. Meanwhile, Erste Abwicklungsanstalt, the bad bank agency for WestLB, is finalising an MTN programme, due to be launched in the next few days.