Germany
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The European Commission will focus on post trade and clearing in its review of the proposed merger between London Stock Exchange and Deutsche Börse, having narrowed its list of concerns from September. But the race is on for the exchanges to address these concerns, with less than three months until a pivotal deadline. -
Innogy, the renewables, retail and grids subsidiary of RWE, is on course to be made liable for €10.1bn of bonds issued by its parent, after gaining approval from a majority of bondholders for a consent solicitation this week.
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Eurex has decided to introduce a number of changes in 2017 to MSCI indices and related futures, after consulting with users for the exchange’s November review.
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Deutsche Telekom and Hellman & Friedman have sold a 6.5% stake in Scout24, the German classified advertising website company, for €224m, through an accelerated bookbuild launched on Monday night.
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Bats Europe is to add several benchmark indices spanning French, German, Italian and Swiss markets and expects these to support derivatives products in the future.
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KfW tapped a December 2019 sterling line on Tuesday, printing £200m to round off the agency's strongest year in sterling since 2008.
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Groupe SEB has set a new record for a French borrower tapping the booming Schuldschein market, raising a whopping €800m to help it buy a German company.
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Rentenbank will sell up to €4.8bn of benchmarks next year, the German agency said on Tuesday, as it announced its funding plans for 2017.
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The renminbi qualified foreign institutional investor (RQFII) scheme is set to end 2016 on a disappointing note with the combined value of quotas awarded amounting to roughly half of last year’s total.
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Daimler, the German car maker, on Monday issued into a sterling market that remains stable despite the ripples from this year's shock Brexit vote.
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On the day that KfW released its funding target for 2017, GlobalCapital caught up with Petra Wehlert, the agency’s head of capital markets, and Alexander Liebethal, head of new issues, capital markets, to find out more about its issuance strategy for next year.
