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◆ Wednesday's 'stand out' senior trade ◆ €1.6bn order book largest ever for BoC ◆ First transaction since acquisiton of UAE-based CDB Bank
Elena Bortolotti was promoted to managing director at Barclays in January 2022
◆ Largest Australian tier two tranche since 2020 ◆ Pays slightly higher NIP than earlier deals ◆ 'Novel' structure attracts high quality order book
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Tightening absolute and relative valuations have raised some concerns, but FIG assets remain in vogue thanks to higher rates
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
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ING has become the latest EU bank to sell subordinated debt during the coronavirus crisis, after capitalising on healthy levels of demand for its tier two paper on Tuesday. -
The Bank of England is mulling ways to support businesses left out of Covid-19 support schemes, with a focus on sub-investment grade corporates and encouraging lending into the real economy. A securitization structure is being comtemplated via the setting up of an intermediary bank.
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Unlike many other banks, ANZ has had no need to draw on central bank emergency liquidity lines during the coronavirus pandemic. Its risk-weighted assets have grown but this has been offset by greater retail deposits. And, as head of funding Mostyn Kau revealed, what subordinated debt issuance it does have to do will be for regulatory reasons rather than to do with Covid-19 crisis funding.
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Achmea was marketing a senior bond on Monday to refinance an outstanding bond maturing in November. The Dutch insurer started with a 'juicy spread', according to some market participants, and gave away a new issue premium of 5bp-10bp to investors.
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Investors lapped up Axa Bank Europe’s €250m tap of a 15-year Obligations Foncieres on Monday and showed that demand for ultra-long dated paper is back on the table. And, being considerably longer than the funding offered by the European Central Bank, the transaction should give a boost to the primary market, despite downbeat supply expectations.
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Intesa Sanpaolo became the first Italian bank to raise funding during the coronavirus pandemic this week. It offered a healthy premium for its five year senior deal, but the bonds have performed very well in the secondary market.
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