NatWest Markets
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NatWest expanded its environmental, social and governance (ESG) offering with its debut social housing bond this week, the first from a UK financial issuer, landing the €1bn deal well through fair value.
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Financial institutions have ramped up their sales of green debt at the start of 2021, as they look to take advantage of a quiet funding year by building out their environment, social and governance frameworks. This week, nearly all FIG euro issuance arrived in ESG formats.
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NatWest has promoted Carla Floyd to head of debt and financing solutions — a newly created job that sits in its ringfenced bank but nonetheless effectively involves running debt capital markets origination for corporate clients.
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Environment, social and governance (ESG) themed debt has dominated the senior market this week, with the format helping to secure more execution certainty in a softer trading environment.
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Nottingham Community Housing Association has signed a revolving credit facility with a margin that is partially linked to increasing racial diversity within its management team — a metric that more borrowers are expected to use in sustainability-linked financings.
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NatWest Group sold the first social housing bond from a UK financial issuer on Tuesday, attracting a highly granular peak order book of over €4.5bn. Investors have latched onto environment, social and governance (ESG) linked bank supply over the past few weeks, with two more labelled deals set to follow in the coming days.
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NREP, the largest real estate investment manager in the Nordics, has signed a €300m subscription credit line, as Europe’s property companies extend their debt binge since the start of the year.
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A pair of sovereigns privately placed century bonds this week, with one of the borrowers — Ireland — dipping below the 1% point for the first time at this sort of tenor.
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Greencoat Renewables, the Irish wind farm fund, has made an acquisition of around €60m acquisition in Finland, a few months after the company sold equity to free up debt for purchases.
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The European Investment Bank and Caisse d’Amortissement de la Dette Sociale (Cades) took centre stage in the public sector dollar market this week, ahead of the Lunar New Year, with EIB selling its first 10 year benchmark in the currency since 2015.
