France
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Citi has made Emmanuel Regniez co-head of investment banking in France, alongside Nicolas Desombre. -
The European high yield bond pipeline this week brought €1bn of single-B rated offerings in euros and sterling from new issuers, giving hope to those working for a bigger borrower base for the market.
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With the benchmark corporate bond market pausing ahead of Thursday’s European Central Bank meeting, Deutsche Bank has sold its second sole-led sub-benchmark deal of the week — a €150m 10 year new issue for the property subsidiary of Casino, the French retailer.
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Euro corporate bond issuance was much cooler on Tuesday after Monday’s fireworks. “Maybe everybody parties on day one and is a bit hung over on day two,” mused one syndicate banker.
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Agence Française de Développement will go on tour to market its newly established climate bonds programme in preparation for a euro deal with a tenor between five and 10 years.
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Regulators, bankers and lawyers converged on Paris this week to attend the first ever conference organised by the European Securities and Markets Authority. Held at The Westin Paris Hotel right by the Tuileries Garden, the event came during an important year for ESMA.
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The scores have been counted and the results are in. The BondMarker voters have delivered their verdict on last week's crop of benchmarks, including a scintillating pair of deals from supranationals. Two deals from French agencies met with drastically different levels of approval from the BondMarker voters, but both fared better than Land NRW.
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French engineering services company doubled its initial launch size to just €450m, joining the growing proportion of Schuldschein deals closing over €200m. But, some question whether the growing number of larger companies accessing the German private placement market might affect funding chances for smaller SMEs
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Investors in public sector dollar deals have found themselves forced to accept brutally tight pricing as issuers drive in spreads to round off their funding programmes.
