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Financial institutions triple issuance in the currency this year, while corporates make greater use of euro and sterling taps
Private taps offer issuers an alternative route through uncertain issuance windows due the Middle East conflict, bankers say
Higher coupons and steady rate expectations draw investors back into the currency
SSA issuers increase focus on PPs amid quieter period for public markets
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Investors that had shunned eurozone periphery Euro-medium term notes during the sovereign debt crisis have been creeping back to Italian and Spanish bank paper by making a series of reverse enquiries about the credits, dealers reported this week.
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Banks sold a flurry of dollar MTNS this week as falling euro rates put off investors in the single currency.
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International Personal Finance hopes to become the latest company to join the UK’s growing retail bond market. It launched a 6.125% seven year issue on Tuesday, hoping to raise around £50m.
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US prime money market funds’ holdings of eurozone bank debt dropped by around $44bn in March — the largest decrease since June — as the fallout from the Republic of Cyprus’s bail-out negotiations left investors across the Atlantic wary, analysts said this week.
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International investors are warming to a structure of private placement sold under French law, bankers said this week, as Caisse Centrale du Crédit Immobilier de France placed a chunky deal using the format. Bons à moyen terme négociables (BMTNs) — or medium-term negotiable bonds — have similar documentation to euro medium term notes.
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Icelandic banks are looking forward to new capital markets opportunities this year as a much delayed change in the country’s tax laws means the issuers can finally sell Eurobonds, writes Craig McGlashan.