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◆ Strong demand for capital supports two major banks' simultaneous deals ◆ Deutsche goes big and pays concession ◆ SG restricts size for a punchy print at fair value
FIG borrowers flood dollar markets as Westpac's SEC exit strategy pays off
◆ Issuer lands in 'the place to be' amid strong demand for covereds ◆ Achieves its largest covered book since at least 2023 ◆ After 7bp tightening the bond was spotted another 2bp tighter to erase new issue concession
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Funding across all parts of the capital structure is available with issuers likely to prioritise unsecured borrowing
With masses to fund and spreads super-tight, banks will race to market, but central banks are expected to tighten
Banks could rush to issue as fast as possible, taking advantage of remarkably tight spreads
Growing pipeline and fiercer competition had threatened to shake the darling bonds of May
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The Prudential Regulation Authority has told UK banks that they are free to resume dividend and bonus payments from next year, though pay-outs will be subject to caps based on profits and risk-weighted assets. -
The European Banking Authority has updated the market on how it thinks Basel IV will impact bank capital requirements, setting the scene for another paper next week examining how the rules could interact with the economic shock of the coronavirus pandemic.
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The launch this week of the Climate Transition Finance Handbook has propelled the sustainable debt market towards a new era, in which the emphasis moves from a labelled security to the issuer itself, writes Jon Hay.
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Green bonds awakened the debt capital markets from their long, slumbrous ignorance of environmental peril.
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The European Central Bank failed to provide the “big bazooka” that some capital market participants were hoping for at its meeting on Thursday. But the central bank did show its willingness to continue financing bank lending until the economy starts to recover, suggesting that FIG supply volumes face another difficult year in 2021.
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Two European banks ventured across the Atlantic this week to tap a dollar market that has remained open for business going into mid-December.
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