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Investec has announced the first close of an inaugural direct lending fund targeting Western Europe’s small cap companies, which Investec believes are underserved by banks and other lenders. -
Traton, the Volkswagen subsidiary which makes MAN, Scania and VW commercial vehicles, on Monday launched a sustainability-linked Schuldscheine with a minimum target of €400m. The first SSD deal of the year, Traton’s target size is a good indication the market is looking to make up ground it lost last year.
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A senior funding manager at KfW who was responsible for leading the borrower’s sterling and dollar deals, has left the German agency.
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MTN issuance out of Asia and Sweden provided some of the week’s bright spots in what was otherwise a quiet start to the year. With the public market now in full swing, bankers expect the private placement market to get up to speed in the coming weeks.
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The combination of Deutsche Hypo into NordLB has failed to cause much of a stir in the covered bond market as, even though the merged cover pools will be very different, spreads between their Pfandbrief curves have little room for manoeuvre.
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State of North Rhine-Westphalia’s third and biggest century bond built an impressive order book in terms of size and number of accounts from a diverse range of investors this week, proving this niche part of the curve is increasingly popular with buyers.
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Several prominent Schuldschein arrangers believe the market must stop setting Euribor floors at 0% this year if it is to lure international borrowers back from the bond markets. If SSD arrangers can persuade investors to settle for lower minimums, corporate treasurers may find the SSD market a compelling alternative to bond markets once more, writes Silas Brown.
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A €1.2bn sale of new Delivery Hero shares showed that investors are ready and waiting to commit capital to new equity capital markets deals in 2021. The transaction showed that demand for high growth tech names remains strong, despite a recent trend of investors buying into more cyclical companies.
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Public sector borrowers soaked up huge demand in the euro market on Tuesday including the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, which printed its biggest ever 100 year bond despite offering a yield of less than 1%.
