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Despite the boost in demand, overall unsecured supply still lags behind 2025, with the bulk of recent supply coming in covered bonds
Foreign banks keep Swiss market busy as issuance slows
Observers blame slower bookbuilding on deal-specific factors but others see warning shots for whole market
Late Labor Day this year and mid-September FOMC will constrain September issuance window
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Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena was selling senior debt in euros on Thursday and UBI Banca was marketing tier two bonds, after the pair came rushing into the market to take advantage of a favourable backdrop for Italian credits. -
La Banque Postale took its first step into the preferred senior bond this market, securing €750m of tightly priced senior funding in the euro market on Thursday.
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Signs of weakness have crept into the FIG secondary market in recent days, but market participants expect that banks will carry on piling into the market ahead of blackout periods and an expected summer slowdown.
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Investors are increasingly showing "price discipline" in the primary market, according to FIG bankers, even though falling yields have severely limited their ability to quibble over returns.
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Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets, the non-ringfenced arm of Lloyds Banking Group, has made its capital markets debut. The UK bank went private to place short-end paper in both fixed and floating rate formats, ahead of a debut in the public market later this week.
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Bankia returned to the primary market for a senior preferred bond on Tuesday, after launching a senior non-preferred bond just two weeks ago. The deal proved popular among investors, who placed orders of almost three times as much as the final deal size of €750m.
