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Higher new issue premiums make deals shine amid market volatility
◆ Strong conditions seized to print first AT1 in a year ◆ Comes more than a year ahead of next call ◆ Tight valuation, high yield leads to the bank's lowest outstanding reset spread
Citigroup and Wells Fargo hit positive post-Fed market with a $18bn salvo
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Conducive credit markets and tight spreads to lure issuers as risks loom on the horizon
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
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Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD) returned to the covered bond market for the second time this week following its dollar benchmark and, thanks to a late rise in yields, the eight year deal offered more than twice the return of CIBC's eight year issued a week ago. -
Prices on Deutsche Bank’s additional tier ones (AT1s) plummeted after the German lender announced a radical overhaul of its investment banking business this week, with bank capital investors still doubting the issuer’s ability to pay coupons on the instruments in the longer term.
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Berlin Hyp this week attracted strong and broad interest for a green mortgage Pfandbrief that, thanks to a small rise in yields since the deal was mandated, narrowly avoiding being priced with a negative return.
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Haitong International Securities Group sold $700m of seven year notes on Tuesday, tightening pricing by 30bp during bookbuild.
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Seven out of eight big companies with heavy carbon emissions are still behaving in a way that will lead to disastrous climate change, according to a report on Wednesday. The finding is not surprising, but underlines the reality that the growth of responsible investing has done far too little to make the economy sustainable.
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National Bank of Greece said on Tuesday that it had picked banks to arrange a tier two bond transaction as part of its plans to raise €800m in the format. The bank could become only the second Greek issuer of subordinated debt since the financial crisis, following a new tier two from Piraeus last month.
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