Natixis
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The demand for sustainability-linked bonds was laid bare on Thursday, as French minerals company Imerys’s SLB commanded more than double the demand of Swedish property firm Sagax’s conventional trade, despite both deals sharing major similarities.
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The Singapore-incorporated global energy company Puma Energy has bounced back after a planned bond issuance last year failed to materialise, raising $590m in the loan market. Sources say the company’s change of management and reorganisation brought a “sense of relief”.
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Market participants rejoiced this week as the primary market landscape returned to normal after US Treasury yield volatility subsided and a number of deals, both investment grade and high yield, came to the market.
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UzAuto Motors, an auto maker owned by the Uzbek state, entered the dollar bond market on Tuesday for its debut deal.
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Bayerische Landesbank (BayernLB) is readying to issue its first covered bond in over two years, having appointed banks on Friday to sell a 10 year deal.
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Natixis has made a handful of hires to its global markets team in Asia Pacific, to support its corporate and investment banking business in the region.
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The European Central Bank published the findings from its targeted review of internal models on Monday. The exercise, which could, to an extent, frontload the impact of Basel IV, is expected to result in a 12% increase in risk-weighted assets and a 71bp decline in common equity tier one ratios.
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Demand for BPCE's latest Kangaroo note was skewed towards the preferred senior format this week, with non-preferred paper only making up A$125m ($96.0m) of the A$750m deal. The French firm was also joined in the market by Rabobank, which sold its first Aussie deal after an almost two year absence.