Société Générale
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Amadeus IT group, the Spanish travel technology company, and German logistics company Kion Group offered corporate bond investors the chance to pick up riskier debt on Thursday, as the demand for higher yielding securities drives large parts of the primary market. -
Bank of China took yet another step this week to build China’s sustainability market by selling Asia’s first blue bond to benefit ocean-related projects — opening the door for similar deals from the region. Morgan Davis reports.
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Novartis, the Swiss pharmaceutical company, is set to join the nascent sustainability-linked bond market this week after mandating banks for a trade and investors will have another chance to pick up crossover rated debt in a deal from forklift truck maker Kion Group.
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Société Générale has added to the recent trend for green deals in the FIG market by launching a €1bn 'positive impact' bond, backed by €5bn of demand.
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Bank of China printed Asia’s first blue bond on Monday, with plans to use the roughly $940m raised to benefit ocean-related sustainability projects.
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Burberry, the UK fashion house, was bang on trend on Monday with its debut bond in sterling, showing that rampant demand exists across currencies for sustainability-themed debt.
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Bank of China rolled out a dual-currency blue bond on Monday, making it the first borrower in Asia to market a marine sustainability transaction.
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Following its inaugural sustainability bond on Monday, Luxembourg hopes that other sovereigns will use its framework as a starting point for their own outings in the format. The Grand Duchy’s sustainability framework is the first to align with the recently published EU taxonomy.
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Europe’s corporate bond investors had the spectrum of credit ratings to pick from on Thursday, from A- rated Volvo Treasury down to German speculative grade fallen angel ZF Friedrichshafen.
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Bevco, an investment holding company (holdco) owned by the Santo Domingo family; French transport infrastructure company Holding d’Infrastructures de Transport and Irish safety conglomerate Johnson Controls drummed up €12.4bn of demand between them on Wednesday, as investors piled into high grade corporates in the primary market.
