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Bank issuance ranges from strategic tier one capital to insurance subsidiary funding externalisation and big senior bond offerings
◆ €500m trade twice covered ◆ Investors showing less preference for tier twos, rival banker says ◆ Low-to-mid single digit concession
◆ Receptive but crowded FIG market requires concessions for funding to clear ◆ BBVA goes big with its first SP in more than two years ◆ Bawag issues first bond after PTSB acquisition
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Higher new issue premiums make deals shine amid market volatility
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
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A senior director in the capital markets funding team at a German agency has left to join UniCredit’s FIG team in Munich, GlobalCapital understands. -
The UK’s new Brexit Bond Management Office is still preparing to issue its first notes, originally scheduled for last Friday. The Brexit-themed Gilts are sized at £36.4bn, equivalent to £350m a week over their two year maturity.
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Tim Sloan, CEO and president of Wells Fargo, has announced his retirement, after several years of regulatory and legal pressure on the bank as a result of mis-selling revelations. Sloan was a Wells veteran; the US bank will now not choose one its own staff as his permanent replacement.
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Following a flurry of corporate deals earlier in the month, financial institution issuers took control of the primary Swiss franc bond market this week.
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Bank of Baroda returned to the market on Thursday to sell its first dollar deal in nearly five years. The bank, acting through its London Branch, raised $800m in a sale that came just days before its expected merger with Vijaya Bank and Dena Bank.
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Japan’s top issuers occupy a unique part of Asia’s bond market landscape. They are well-regarded enough — and rated highly enough — that moments of fear in the credit markets can lead to more demand for their deals, rather than less. They face a domestic bond market defined by negative interest rates, an investor base that is ultra-sensitive to movements in the swap rate and an expectation from the government that their funding costs will remain tight.
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