Natixis
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Alstom, the French maker of railway rolling stock, was the only high grade company to announce any corporate bond activity on Monday, as a public holiday in Germany and the huge flows of the last month kept the new issue market shuttered. -
Crédit Agricole and Banque Fédérative du Cedit Mutuel had contrasting responses for preferred senior bonds in the sterling market on Wednesday, with the French banks deciding to hit the market as members of the UK parliament returned to their seats.
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Rusal, the aluminium company, is set to sign Russia's first internationally syndicated sustainability-linked loan, for $750m. Some bankers say Russian borrowers are increasingly interested in financings linked to environmental, social and governance factors, as they hope to attract lenders put off by sanctions that have partly isolated Russia from capital markets since 2014.
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Natixis has become the first bank to introduce a green weighting factor to its internal capital model, so that the way it prices loans is skewed to favour environmentally sound assets and disadvantage polluting ones. The ground-breaking move brings to fruition an 18 month project and anticipates what some believe may one day be demanded by regulators.
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Investors stormed into the euro public sector bond market this week fired up from the announcement of a new comprehensive stimulus package by the European Central Bank last week.
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China National Chemical Corp (ChemChina) is seeking lenders’ consent to amend terms of a $5.5bn dual-tranche loan sealed last year, as it undergoes a debt restructuring, according to bankers.
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The European Investment Bank and Nordic Investment Bank kept the strong momentum going in the SSA euro bond market on Wednesday, capitalising on the European Central Bank’s announcement of fresh stimulus last week and a lack of issuance over the summer. However, Joint Laender's deal was only just oversubscribed, which the leads attributed to investors’ hesitance to buy a negative yielding 10 year bond from a less liquid name.
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Wells Fargo hasn't wasted time in the bond market this week. It launched a euro senior bond on Wednesday, a day after raising sterling debt. Concurrently, Spanish lender Kutxabank was marketing a senior non-preferred bond in euros, its debut in the format.
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Upstream oil and gas company ENN Ecological Holdings Co priced a $250m tap of a bond it sold earlier this year. The deal came after news of a share transfer that could give it effective control over sister company ENN Energy Holdings.
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No less than three dual tranche corporate bond deals hit the market on Tuesday, as BMW, Abertis, and AbbVie jostled for the attention of investors with €2bn, €1.5bn and €1.4bn deals.
