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◆ Bank's second labeled tier two in currency this year ◆ Limited attrition ◆ Volatile energy backdrop amid Strait of Hormuz tensions
◆ Volkswagen Bank raises €2.5bn across three green tranches ◆ RCI Banque returns with €1.25bn dual trancher ◆ Investors turn more cautious on duration
◆ Korean covered was one of two new issues on Monday ◆ Third Korean covered bonds in three weeks ◆ Leads chose only two deals as comparables
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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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Davide Serra, founder and chief executive of Algebris Investments, presented a bullish case for financials on Tuesday, on the basis that their equity prices have been less manipulated by central bank asset purchase programmes than institutions in other sectors. But he thought that the European Central Bank (ECB) will end up buying banks’ senior unsecured bonds. -
NIBC Bank and Axa SFH issued two tightly priced 10 year covered bonds on Tuesday. The French deal was initially slow to build, in contrast to the Dutch conditional pass through (CPT), which got an extra boost because of its positive yield.
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Fullerton India Credit Co raised S$150m ($108.6m) in the Singapore market, straying from its usual fundraising efforts in the rupee market.
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Cerberus is marketing a new UK RMBS partly backed by the portfolio it repurchased from Metro Bank this summer, with the senior notes pre-placed and the rest of the stack handled by Bank of America’s trading desk.
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AXA Home Loan SFH has mandated leads for a 10 year deal that is expected to be launched in the near future.
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UK covered bonds in euros have been modestly supported in the secondary market, as investors view spreads as relatively generous compared to the rest of Europe, and because some say the UK's chance of leaving the European Union at the end of October without reaching an agreement has receded. However ‘the risk of a no-deal exit remains high,’ Standard and Poor’s warned on Monday.
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