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Thailand Future Fund hit screens on Friday, with a set of cornerstone investors looking to help get its Bt44.7bn ($1.4bn) IPO across the line. -
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Ireland this week added its name to the growing list of sovereign green bond issuers, achieving one of its main goals as it diversified its investor base. A debut French agency issuer joined the sovereign on Wednesday, printing its first ever deal — which also came from the first ever Green Euro Medium Term Note programme.
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Conagra Brands became the biggest high-grade casualty of market volatility when it pulled a multi-billion M&A financing on Thursday.
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One of Europe’s major electricity producers, Portugal’s EDP, sold its first green bond on Tuesday, aligning its fundraising with the company’s green principles. Meanwhile, Dutch airport owner and operator Royal Schiphol Group announced plans for its debut green bond. Both followed French vehicle leasing company ALD’s inaugural green bond.
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With its latest dollar bond, China's Ministry of Finance may have demonstrated the sovereign’s market access and its credit strength even in a hostile trade environment, but a potential repricing of the China state-owned enterprises (SOEs) curve still seems unlikely, writes Addison Gong.
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A pair of debut green bond borrowers made blistering entries to the market on Wednesday. Ireland added its name to the growing list of sovereign green issuers with what on-looking bankers said was a “blowout”, while Société du Grand Paris (SGP) printed at the very top of its size expectations on what was also its debut bond issue of any kind.
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Shurgard Self Storage, a European operator of self-storage facilities, has revised the price range for its €575m IPO on Euronext Brussels and is covered throughout the new range, despite a difficult market where several deals have been pulled and others have traded down in the aftermarket.
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Sibur, the Russian petrochemical company, announced a bond buy-back on Tuesday, targeting the borrower’s October 2023 bond.
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New liquidity requirements will cause a boom in senior bond issuance in the same way that the introduction of capital requirements led to a surge in the supply of subordinated debt, according to analysts at JP Morgan. The analysts said that investors have been underestimating how quickly this trend will impact the euro market.
