Finland
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Issuance is starting to resume after the summer break; however, this week a booming public market drew away investor and issuer attention from MTNs. Despite this, a range of established SSA, FIG and corporate borrowers have slipped in, with deals across core, niche and EM currencies. -
Following its latest euro syndication, the Republic of Finland is looking at a possible return to the dollar market after a two year absence. On Wednesday, demand for the sovereign’s latest bond was high as it printed through the ECB deposit rate to sell “the most expensive syndication of all time”, according to a banker on the deal.
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Following what a banker on Wednesday's euro bond called the ‘richest syndication of all time’, the Republic of Finland is looking at a possible return to the dollar market.
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Finnish nuclear power company Teollisuuden Voima (TVO) got a warm reception from the investors on Wednesday, when it sold €550m of senior unsecured notes after a 20bp tightening from initial price thoughts.
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Demand for the Republic of Finland’s latest bond was high on Wednesday as it printed through the ECB deposit rate to sell “the most expensive syndication of all time”, according to a banker on the deal. The five year note came 29.9bp richer than Austria’s previous record holding deal, another five year note sold in June.
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A flight to safety is underway leaving little support for the riskier bits of leveraged finance. A Finnish nuclear power company is, however, marketing a deal in the high yield bond market and one investor told GlobalCapital he expects to see others follow suit rather than tap the loan market.
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This week's scorecard looks at the progress Nordic agencies have made in their 2019 funding programmes.
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Finland’s Municipality Finance is hoping to receive increased demand for its bonds from insurance companies, following a recent amendment to the Solvency II regulation.
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A rates and structured sales banker at NordLB has resigned and will taking a job in the treasury department of Ålandsbanken, a bank headquartered in the Åland Islands, an autonomous region in Finland.
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Investors have looked towards structured and long dated notes in their hunt for yield as the summer break creeps closer.
