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◆ Asset class is 10bp wider than two months ago ◆ Santander prints for the first time in more than two years ◆ Swiss Re restarts even rarer insurance capital funding
◆ US bank raises close to €2bn-equivalent in tier two debt ◆ Issuer attracts lots of attention and orders ◆ Market participants praise 'cool' deal
The bank is capitalising on an investor base starved of CEE bank issuance
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Uncertainty in Middle East peace negotiations may reignite alarm, but investors remain willing as long as issuers pay to play
Tweaks to trading book rules will be next stage of competition
Come May, current dollar market's gain may turn into euro pipeline's pain
European Central Bank's more 'balanced' tone may offer reprieve for bond execution
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Market participants expect financial institutions will step up their focus on labelled issuance after the summer break, though supply has already shot past the full year volumes for 2020. -
A pair of banks moved the bar downwards as they printed two of the tightest Australian dollar deals since the 2008 financial crisis: ING Australia found demand for dual tranche covered bond, while United Overseas Bank tapped the three year point of the curve.
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Credit investors are pleased with how banks performed in the EU stress test, though the sector lost more capital on average than it did in the previous exercise in 2018. The market was even sanguine about Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, which will be able to stick to its ‘fallback’ plan despite losing all its capital under the adverse scenario.
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ING is set to print the first Australian dollar covered bond of the year this week. Covered paper out of the region has remained scant over the last 12 months, but issuance is set to pick up as onshore lenders start to think about life after the end of the Reserve Bank of Australia's Term Funding Facility.
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Standard Chartered opened books for a dollar additional tier one (AT1) bond on Tuesday, pairing the new issue with an early tender for its perpetual non-call April 2022 note.
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The rating agency said the bank's tier twos were at a high risk of default because of UniCredit's takeover offer
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