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◆ Books remain intact with premiums paid ◆ Investor fatigue setting in ◆ Yields falling after Iran-US peace deal progress
Books were nearly four times the deal size, a record €1bn
◆ First deal to release IPTs on busy day ◆ MPS M&A bid had 'no impact' on deal, says lead ◆ Priced flat to fair value
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Currency's higher yielding appeal has lured investors across the capital stack
Issuers seizing moment as rates stabalise and spreads hold near historic tights but some deals betray signs investors growing sensitive on price
Less frequent issuers making the most of market with strong bid for yieldy assets
Borrowers want to issue and spreads are tight, but execution windows are very unreliable
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DBS Group Holdings raised $1bn from a record setting bank capital transaction on Thursday. With the order book more than five times subscribed, the Singaporean bank was able to seal its trade at the lowest coupon ever. -
Twelve of the largest global investment banks reduced their headcounts in equities by 10% last year, leading to one of the “steepest declines in years” in the number of investment bank employees, according to analytics firm CRISIL Coalition.
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Intense demand in the Swiss franc bond market for any asset with a positive yield — or even anything yielding more than the penal negative rates on cash — gave a varied group of issuers this week execution that pushed the boundaries — bigger, faster and tighter.
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JP Morgan grabbed the record for the lowest yielding preferred security issue this week, as investors continued to pour cash into the asset class.
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Europe’s capital markets are back in super-demand mode.
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ING left its investors bemused on Wednesday, when it decided to pull the additional tier one (AT1) bond it was marketing on the basis of undisclosed information it had received. After the news of its chief executive’s move to UBS quickly became public, the door was left open for the bank to complete the trade.
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The awards recognise the market's leading deals, issuers, banks and other participants
The winning institutions and individuals will be revealed at the awards dinner on June 17 in London
Don't miss your chance to choose this year's Bond Award winners
The covered bond market gathered in Seville to celebrate its standout deals, institutions and individuals
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