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Europe’s regulator proposes preserving capital requirements while trimming the complexity that hampers cross-border M&A
UK borrower goes alone on Thursday following FOMC rate hold
Despite a strong year for euro covered bond issuance more broadly, volumes from France are way down on last year
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Europe's regulator seeks to reduce complexity while 'preserving banks' resilience and resolvability'
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
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Korean Housing Finance Corporation (KHFC) issued its first €1bn-sized covered bond on Wednesday and priced the deal inside fair value. At the same time, Société Générale issued a €1bn 10 year green covered bond flat to its curve with eye-catching demand. -
The cost of insuring against default on Italian bank bonds has fallen to its lowest point in over a year, after investors embraced the result of recent regional elections in the country.
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Low yields have driven financial institution bond investors to put money into higher yielding instruments. The latest wheeze is insurance companies' restricted tier one (RT1) bonds, which investors think offer value. Issuance is set to rise as issuers look to replace grandfathered products.
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Turkey's Vakifbank has released initial price guidance for a dollar benchmark, with the intention of printing the deal later on Wednesday.
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Demand for covered bonds has surged higher in recent weeks, even though yields in the asset class have plunged lower. But issuers should not get too excited, as the balance of power is sure to tilt back in the favour of investors if yields carry on falling.
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Caisse de Refinancement de l’Habitat (CRH) managed to attract demand of more than €6bn for its two part eight and 15 year transactions issue on Tuesday, with the bonds pricing tighter than where BPCE recently issued similar deals and with considerably more demand — despite a 22bp plunge in yields and with consistent demand from the European Central Bank.
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