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A rise in rates is helping high quality names push credit spreads even lower

Barings has hired Magnus Lilja, SEB's head of leveraged finance for Germany, as a managing director for European private finance in Frankfurt.

Investors are happy to accept tight spreads in exchange for safer exposures

Amprion, Smurfit Kappa and Segro dip their toes into new markets

SEB has hired syndicate veteran to grow its presence in the euro market

Swedish firms flock to MTN market in search of covered and senior funding

Swedish krona issuance is set to pick up after Region Stockholm jump started the post-summer market this week

Valeo, the French auto parts maker, and US exchange company Nasdaq brushed off any worries of contagion from a weak sterling market to print bonds in euros flat to fair value on Tuesday, with the issuers able to take full advantage of the an exceptionally quiet market.

Nasdaq, the US securities trading marketplace, has mandated for an SEC-registered euro benchmark bond, days after the company announced it was spinning off its private market business into a new standalone joint venture.

A handful of borrowers have found their additional tier one (AT1) paper upgraded into investment grade territory by Moody’s this week, following adjustments in how the agency treats high trigger instruments.

Teknos, a Finnish maker of paints and industrial coatings, strayed from the standard playbook when designing the key performance indicators for its first sustainability-linked bank loan, a €140m deal.

Oriola, a Finnish health and wellbeing company, has signed a €140m revolving credit facility, with the company adding sustainability targets to its bank debt for the first time.