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◆ 48bp over mid-swaps spread for five year SP paper unbeaten since 2020 ◆ Nordic banks first to exit earnings blackouts ◆ New issue premium debated
◆ Deal lands flat to recent UK and Canadian trades ◆ Dollar prices find stable footing for issuers and investors ◆ Pricing in line with other currencies
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Growing pipeline and fiercer competition had threatened to shake the darling bonds of May
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
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Banco BPM dropped into the euro market on Tuesday for its third tier two deal in about 10 months, as the Italian lender continues to whittle down its financing costs. -
Sebastiano Laviola, director of strategy and policy coordination at the Single Resolution Board, said there is still plenty of work to do to refine bank failure rules in Europe but praised lenders for getting on well with issuing for the minimum requirements for own funds and eligible liabilities (MREL) during the pandemic.
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Senior and covered bond plans were flowing into the deal pipeline on Monday, with issuers keen to buck the softer tone and print before the start of the summer break.
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Market participants think spreads on HSBC’s French covered bonds will "meet in the middle" with those of the lower rated My Money Bank, as the former gets ready to sell its operations to the latter.
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The European Central Bank will allow banks to exclude central bank exposures from their leverage ratios for longer than originally planned, sparking a debate over whether the relief measure could become a more permanent feature of EU banking policy.
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Crédit Agricole has phased out Libor for Sonia on some of its outstanding sterling additional tier one (AT1) paper, following the successful completion of an exchange offer that allowed investors to swap old paper for new notes with a modified back-end.
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