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This year's cumulative total issuance by financial institutions outstrips 2025's levels
◆ Spanish covered was only new issue on Wednesday ◆ Tenor has been well-issued in past week ◆ Banker said market to slow from here
Hong Kong dollar and offshore renminbi bid returns, while dollar callables lose momentum
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Contrasting investor receptions in euro and sterling markets but new issue premiums rise in both
Observers blame slower bookbuilding on deal-specific factors but others see warning shots for whole market
Covered market provides 'the deepest pocket of demand' among FIG asset classes
Capital deals and a tight Nordic senior print point to what lies ahead for issuers
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Supervisors are encouraging financial institutions to use all of their capital and liquidity buffers as necessary during the coronavirus crisis, signalling that lenders will be given a "significant" amount of time to restore their regulatory ratios to adequate levels. -
Deutsche Bank has set up an inter-disciplinary sustainable finance team in its capital markets group, aiming to be “viewed as [a] market leader on this important subject”, as it senses that clients, including big oil and gas companies, are having increasingly to consider environmental and social issues to access the capital markets.
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Any attempt to create a eurozone bad bank is likely to face many challenges, both political ones over support for the banking sector and practical ones in creating an institution dealing with non-performing loans from across Europe, market experts have said.
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A recent European Central Bank working paper may have underestimated the part a sovereign’s credit plays in the covered bond’s credit risk. But this relationship plays a very important role, a Moody’s analyst said on Monday, referring to a report by the agency assessing how the pandemic will affect covered bond credit quality.
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BPCE seized an opportunity to launch €1.5bn of preferred senior funding this week — an asset class that has outperformed all other bank funding products in the market in recent trading sessions.
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The European Central Bank is creating a temporary forum to stimulate dialogue between the ECB, national central banks in the eurozone and the private sector on the proposed European Distribution of Debt Instruments (EDDI) project, which aims to create a one-stop synchronised platform for selling bonds across the bloc.
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