France
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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.
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Corporate bonds that are executed on Fridays are often brought then to give issuers some space in crowded markets, but in an otherwise quiet week French electricity grid operator Réseau de Transport d’Électricité had little competition for investor attention last Friday as it printed the longest dated deal of the week.
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French car hire group Europcar opened the high yield bond primary market on Monday with new debt to fund the acquisition of Spanish peer Goldcar, demonstrating how little investors are worrying about the escalating crisis between Catalonia and Spain over the former's push for independence.
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Vice-chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) Anneli Tuominen has said that the body could issue a warning on Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), a method of capital raising using cryptocurrencies on a blockchain.
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The €549m IPO of SMCP, the French fashion group, is set to be priced at €22 a share, valuing the business at €1.57bn.
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CMA CGM, the French container liner, priced its first bond issue on Tuesday after improving on its triple-C ratings. Investor demand was enough for the issuer to double the size of the deal.
