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PIF's commercial paper programmes have been rated by S&P
EDF and Mowi tapped private placements in their home currencies
SSA issuers extend their hot run in the private market, crowding into the short end of the curve
Banks crowd the short end in another busy week for private placements
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Pohjola Bank has taken advantage of an attractive euro/sterling basis swap and investor appetite for bank risk to print £305m in medium term notes (MTNs) over the last week. But the latest round of cheap euro loans from the ECB could mean the window of opportunity will soon close.
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Swap dealers are agog to know how much money the European Central Bank is going to lend banks on Wednesday in its second three year lending operation. But they admit that no one really knows how the money markets will react to the outcome.
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US prime money market funds’ return to Eurozone bank debt during January could be sustained via an unlikely source — a resurgence of their appetite for French bank paper.
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Chinese banks are weighing up the advantages of using euro medium term note (EMTN) programmes as an alternative source of funding to certificates of deposit (CDs), dealers said, as two rare Asian names printed notes.
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US prime money market funds still have a cautious view of Eurozone banks, dealers said, despite increasing their exposure to those institutions in January.
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European banks are accessing the longest average tenors in commercial paper (CP) in more than a year, despite some institutions in peripheral Europe struggling to print in the long end and a number of firms being placed on watch for downgrade by Moody’s.