LBBW
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Indorama Ventures, a petrochemicals company headquartered in Bangkok, has mandated banks to raise Schuldscheine via a European subsidiary, according to several people familiar with the situation. The deal is a further sign of the instrument’s growing popularity in East Asia.
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Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW) became the first issuer of non-preferred senior bonds in green format in sterling this week. The German lender took advantage of favourable market conditions to print in line with other recent sterling issuers.
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Arrangers are confident that a wave of international issuers will enter the Schuldschein market soon, with German borrowers having kick-started proceedings at the beginning of the new year.
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Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW) is set to become the first issuer of green non-preferred senior paper in the sterling bond market, as well as the first financial institution to include sustainability ratings in a new deal mandate.
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Gradually over the past decade, Asian investors have become more and more important to European corporate private debt markets, to the point where they are now often indispensable. Asian borrowers have been slower to appear, but are now arriving. However, while these arrivals have largely benefited these markets, they have introduced a few complications.
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Crédit Agricole Italia marketed a dual-tranche bond with eight year and 25 year maturities. A steeper curve helped the longer tranche offer a higher pickup against the shorter bond, but investors still placed hefty orders on both tenors.
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German agricultural machinery firm Claas has entered the Schuldschein market for a minimum of €150m, with one of the deal's tranches not settling until mid-August.
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Investors piled into the euro public sector bond market on Wednesday, allowing borrowers to achieve well subscribed order books and minimal new issue concessions for a range of maturities.
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German pharmaceutical firm Vetter launched a Schuldschein on Tuesday, which is the first such offering in the market in 2020.
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A strong reception for a five year euro benchmark by KfW on Tuesday was enough to lure in a hesitant flock of public sector borrowers to the euro market as the pipeline stacks up for Wednesday’s business.
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Issuers rushed to open the euro covered bond market this week. Trades from ABN Amro, Erste Group and LBBW showed that investors are ready to put cash to work, but higher new issue premiums suggested that issuers were taking a 'conservative' approach at the beginning of the year.