France
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BPCE was active in the Samurai market this week, selling ¥119.5bn ($1.08bn) of notes, the vast majority of which were in the senior non-preferred format and will be used to finance eligible social loans. The French bank is also drafting a new framework for green bonds and two types of social bond. -
A slew of deals hit screens in sterling this week, allowing SSA borrowers from three continents to pick up a combined £1.175bn ($1.55bn) in funding — including one borrower’s largest-ever deal in the currency.
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Barclays has returned to the Swiss franc bond market after an eight year absence.
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French markets regulator, Autorité des marchés financiers, has expressed concerns over the supervision of UK clearing houses after Brexit, suggesting that UK home country supervisors may not focus on the stability of the European Union.
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Two corporate bond issuers from opposite ends of the ratings spectrum found similar success with new bonds on Wednesday. The seven and eight year tenors found favour with investors looking to put new cash inflows to work.
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Beverage company Rémy Cointreau has signed a €100m syndicated loan, with a pricing structure that could see the margin on the debt plunge by more than 70% if certain conditions are met.
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French lender La Banque Postale came to the market on Wednesday with its second ever senior non-preferred deal, undeterred by the July 4 holiday in the US.
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Crédit Agricole and Münchener Hypothekenbank (MuHyp) found good demand for their covered bonds on Tuesday, but it was Crédit Agricole’s transaction that really stood out by virtue of its size and maturity, which until now had been viewed with trepidation.
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Société Générale on Tuesday announced that it had agreed to buy Commerzbank’s equity markets and commodities business (EMC), including market-making flow and products trading as well as exchange-traded fund (ETF) subsidiary ComStage.
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French car parts distributor Autodis announced an add-on of its only floating rate bond on Monday, amid higher average high yield funding costs but with investors confident that the market can cope.
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Compagnie de Financement Foncier (CFF), which had financed the mortgage and public sector lending activities of Crédit Foncier and BPCE Group, will in future issue Obligations Foncières to refinance only the public sector assets of the BPCE Group.
