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◆ Tightest callable Italian tier two since 2020 ◆ UniCredit year-on-year spreads continue to tighten ◆ 80% of allocations made to 'solid real money' accounts
◆ No attrition on insurance arm's €500m no-grow 2036 deal ◆ Ample demand from buy-and-hold accounts ◆ 'So much cash available' despite US-Iran peace deal failure
◆ Largest Czech bank tightened spread by 8bp ◆ Subsidiary of Erste Group announced mandate on Monday ◆ 'Arithmetically, there is no FV', a banker said

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Funding across all parts of the capital structure is available with issuers likely to prioritise unsecured borrowing
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With masses to fund and spreads super-tight, banks will race to market, but central banks are expected to tighten
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Banks could rush to issue as fast as possible, taking advantage of remarkably tight spreads
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Growing pipeline and fiercer competition had threatened to shake the darling bonds of May
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  • CMB Financial Leasing Co returned with five year and 10 year dual-tranche bonds on Wednesday, selling the first decade bond from a Chinese FIG credit in more than a month as costs for longer-dated notes fall.
  • Commerzbank expects its corporate division to remain under pressure from the coronavirus crisis in the second half of the year, after a second quarter where international firms rushed to take out debt products but the bank was stung by a large single provision, understood to relate to disgraced payments company, Wirecard.
  • BNP Paribas has issued a series of green medium-term notes linked to the performance of the new Australian Climate Transition Index (ACT), which is made up of companies expected to thrive in the transition to keep global warming below 2°C.
  • Metro Bank has said that it could slip below its minimum requirements for own funds and eligible liabilities in the coming months. It is paying close attention to a review of MREL being carried out by the Bank of England, which may help it to avoid embarking on another costly debt-raising exercise.
  • European Central Bank covered bond buying and mounting covered bond redemptions will exacerbate a technical squeeze — but with Bunds set to underperform swaps, issuers cannot afford to be complacent.
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