Norway
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Commerzbank and Sparebank 1 Boligkreditt have mandated leads for 10 year euro covered bond benchmarks after WL Bank issued a 10 year on Monday. Deutsche Pfandbriefbank is due with a dollar-denominated Reg S covered bond benchmark, while the main supply in capital comes from DBS Bank. -
Bionor Pharma, the Norwegian biotech firm focused on developing a cure for HIV, will raise Nkr104m ($12.6m) after it simultaneously priced its private placement and announced a fully underwritten rights issue on Thursday.
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The list of Norwegian covered bond debuts continues to grow with Moody’s assigning a top rating to OBOS Boligkreditt, the largest housing and real estate developer in Norway. The agency now rates 18 Norwegian covered bond programmes in this nation of five million people.
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Shares in BW Offshore, one of the world’s largest operators of floating oil production and storage vessels, traded up in Oslo on Monday after the company completed its Nkr847m ($101m) rights issue.
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Norwegian gas and oil shipping and storage company Stolt-Nielsen has agreed $325m of new debt arrangements with three of its relationship banks to fund the purchase of Jo Tankers' chemical tanker operations.
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Shares in BW Offshore, the Norwegian floating oil storage vessel owner and operator, have fallen 69% after its shares began trading ex-rights on Wednesday, ahead of its $100m rights issue.
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Bank investors of Norwegian and Swedish covered bonds will be obliged to hold more capital against their investments from next week. Though this is likely to have implications for a considerable number of noteholders, the absolute change is small and is unlikely to affect demand, said analysts at Danske Bank research.
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Norwegian renewable energy firm Statkraft has signed a Nkr11bn (€1.2bn) five year revolving credit facility with a group of banks.
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An auction this month to settle 2014-form credit default swaps referencing Norske Skog will comprise separate auctions for all four maturity buckets, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association’s EMEA Determinations Committee (DC) has confirmed, but 2003 updated contracts will only be settled in the shortest dated of these auctions.
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AP Møller-Mærsk, the Danish shipping and oil company, revived its Norwegian krone bond funding on Monday with a three tranche deal that attracted much more demand than expected, growing to Nkr5.2bn (€558m).
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