Mizuho
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Bank of China took yet another step this week to build China’s sustainability market by selling Asia’s first blue bond to benefit ocean-related projects — opening the door for similar deals from the region. Morgan Davis reports.
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Mainland-based logistics company ZTO Express (Cayman) has hit the road with its Hong Kong secondary offering, with two other Chinese US-listed firms hot on its heels.
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Andy Bourne and Ross Webster have arrived at Mizuho International to work on convertible bonds.
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Bank of China printed Asia’s first blue bond on Monday, with plans to use the roughly $940m raised to benefit ocean-related sustainability projects.
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Two Gulf bank issuers — Qatar National Bank and Gulf International Bank — hit bond markets on Tuesday to raise dollar funds, following what has been a busy period for Middle Eastern issuers. With investor appetite remains ravenous and market conditions healthy, there is scope for further issuance.
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Bank of China rolled out a dual-currency blue bond on Monday, making it the first borrower in Asia to market a marine sustainability transaction.
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Nissan Motor made its debut in the European bond market on Friday with a €2bn deal that investors would have liked larger and differently shaped, just a day after it had issued its first ever foreign currency bond, for $8bn.
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Ford, the US car maker, offered investment grade bond investors a chance to dip into high yield on Tuesday. And its rival, Nissan Motor, is lining up a seven tranche behemoth bond issue that will create a euro curve out to eight years.
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Issuance in Europe’s high grade corporate market trended towards high beta names this week, with a spate of deals from riskier names, including the first outing for German fallen angel ZF Freidrichshafen since its downgrade.
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Europe’s corporate bond investors had the spectrum of credit ratings to pick from on Thursday, from A- rated Volvo Treasury down to German speculative grade fallen angel ZF Friedrichshafen.
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Ford, the US car maker, offered investment grade bond investors the chance to dip into high yield on Tuesday, while its rival Nissan Motor is lining up a seven tranche behemoth bond issue that will create a euro curve out to eight years.
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CNCB (Hong Kong) Investment, a subsidiary of China Citic Group, is planning to repay a $800m loan raised in 2018 after struggling to get consent from lenders for covenant waivers.