Natixis
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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. -
Commerzbank and Unipol Group ‘ticked all the boxes’ with their new green senior transactions on Wednesday, amassing large orders from investors.
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Beijing Construction Engineering Group has returned to the debt market for a $350m term loan.
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Meriem Smida and Christine Coudray have been given new coverage jobs at Natixis, as global head of financial sponsors coverage and global head of banks and international public sector (BIPS) coverage respectively.
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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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China National Chemical Corp (ChemChina) made a splash in the bond market this week with a dual currency five-tranche deal that raised close to $3bn.
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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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Two public sector borrowers managed to get euro deals done in the primary market ahead of the European Central Bank’s governing council meeting on Thursday, with World Bank issuing its biggest ever bond in euros longer than 10 years and Hamburg comfortably crossing the line despite an embarrassing start to the execution process.
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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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French reinsurer Scor launched a tier two at a negative new issue premium on Thursday, finding plenty of demand after a prolonged absence from the market.
