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The European Central Bank is understood to be moving towards lending out covered bonds it has purchased under its Eu60bn programme to help improve secondary market liquidity.
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Demand for corporate MTNs remained strong this week but prohibitively tight corporate funding levels are stopping these issuers from tapping the private placement market, said MTN dealers.
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The World Bank took sales of its "green bond" product, which earmarks proceeds for environmental projects, to over $1bn this week as an institutionally-targeted Swedish krona deal followed a $355m 10-tranche retail issue made on Friday (February 19).
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Banco Popolare priced a Eu1bn seven year issue on Wednesday that is the first Italian benchmark covered bond of the year and the first from a southern European jurisdiction since concerns about peripheral sovereigns’ finances flared up.
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WestLB priced a Eu1bn five year public sector Pfandbrief last Friday (February 19), with the success of a similar deal for Westfälische Landschaft Bodenkreditbank a day earlier having encouraged the issuer to act swiftly on its own issuance plans.
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Crédit Agricole has leapt from sixth place to take the top spot on the third party MTN table, demonstrating its increasing activity in vanilla deals.
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Long-absent issuers returned to the Swiss franc market this week. With investors embracing the chance to buy debt from unfamiliar names, borrowers sought a welcome diversification of funding.
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Investors are searching for new or rare sovereign, supranational and agency names to buy, as the private placement market experiences a flight to quality over continued concerns about Greece’s economic troubles.