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Aroundtown Property Holdings, the Germany-focused property company, raised €426m on Tuesday evening to finance a tender offer for convertible bonds due in 2020, via a popular block trade that was covered in 45 minutes.
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Eurobond offerings from US high yield borrowers may be harder to find in the second quarter of the year as pricing terms improve for US borrowers.
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Nederlandse Waterschapsbank will add a new item to SRI investors’ menu, after mandating banks on Wednesday to run a roadshow for a debut affordable housing bond.
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CK Hutchison priced a $1bn hybrid bond at 4% on Tuesday, with the deal featuring a dual step-up to qualify for partial equity treatment from ratings agencies. And while investor appetite was strong, some handholding was needed behind the scenes.
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BoCom International Holdings Co has covered its HK$2.1bn ($265.6m) IPO after opening books last Friday with a strong cornerstone base, according to a banker on the deal.
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KfW has sold the largest ever new green bond issue from a supranational or European agency, printing flat to its curve with a green deal for the first time and drawing a remarkably high level of Asian investor interest for a euro trade. More SRI issuance is on the way, after Dutch agency FMO announced a sustainability bond roadshow.
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Dutch biotechnology firm Qiagen has launched a tightly priced €150m dual currency Schuldschein, as investors treat it as a German issuer.
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Bpifrance Financement broke its size record on Tuesday, nipping back into capital markets ahead of several of its compatriots, according to a funding official at the issuer. The European Investment Bank (EIB) and NRW.Bank also made the most of the stable conditions, printing their own benchmarks.
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Saga, the UK insurance company, priced its £250m bond almost almost 40bp inside initial price thoughts on Tuesday, in the European high yield market's first new issue since the French election, despite fears that a Macron win could be read as negative for the Brexiting UK.
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Indonesian state-owned electricity distributor Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) raised $2bn from a dual-trancher on Monday. It achieved both size and price, while bankers said it also helped boost supply from the country’s quasi-sovereigns.
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Bank of Communications Hong Kong sealed a $1bn deal across two floating rate tranches on Monday, continuing issuers’ trend of favouring the structure.
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Leoch International Technology has wrapped up its syndicated fundraising at a larger size of $200m.