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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
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Leaseplan issued a Eu10m 18 month quarterly puttable senior unsecured FRN via Société Générale on Tuesday, marking its return to the private placement market after an absence of more than a year.
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Irish bank names issuing under their government’s latest guarantee scheme printed a succession of trades this week, including structured and vanilla deals.
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Lloyds TSB stormed bank into the MTN market this week with several chunky floaters and structured notes. It had been absent from the market since mid-February thanks first to a blackout period and then it updated its programme documents.
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SNS Bank staged a return to the MTN market this week selling a pair of inflation-linked notes via BNP Paribas. But dealers in the market remained split about whether a glut of similar deals might follow.
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Lloyds updated its funding levels after coming out of its blackout period. But despite increasing its levels by 5bp across its curve for vanilla products, dealers and investors were more interested in its updated and widened structured funding levels.
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Investor interest in the Irish banks gained momentum this week, as Irish Life and Permanent sold its first deal under the updated Irish government guarantee scheme — a Eu20m inflation linker via Citi — and Bank of Ireland issued a further four notes under the guarantee.