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‘Extremely busy’ August restart in store for SSA market
Pause will benefit issuers as excess bonds need absorption before issuance starts to ‘fire on all cylinders’ from August 17
Green investors buy when everyone else stops, giving issuers one last pricing lever — perhaps to cross a line none of them wants to reach
EM bond surge in September at risk if new burst of war reignites inflation
Market is in good shape, but will not stay that way if war drags on over summer
Brookfield asks to defer interest on German multifamily CMBS
Restructuring of €316m deal from 2021 is likely
Green investors buy when everyone else stops, giving issuers one last pricing lever — perhaps to cross a line none of them wants to reach
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The European Union will complete the funding for its Support to Mitigate Unemployment Risks in an Emergency programme next year, rather than this summer as previously planned. -
Europe’s corporate bond investors got stuck into unrated debt on Thursday, as German airport operator Fraport and French care home company Orpea printed bonds.
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E.On, the German electricity company, became the second corporate issuer in as many days to issue green bonds in line with the draft EU Taxonomy. It matched Verbund by printing them flat to fair value.
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Nordic Investment Bank raised €500m on Thursday, tapping a green April 2027 line in an otherwise deserted SSA market.
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The European Union’s final draft Taxonomy of Sustainable Economic Activities came in for heavy criticism from a European bank's head of funding on Thursday, who said that the compromise wording would torpedo the market for green covered bonds.
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Shipping company Hapag-Lloyd on Thursday priced the second sustainability-linked bond to hit the euro high yield market, with the new issue’s coupon tied to cuts to the carbon intensity of its fleet. Proceeds refinance an old bond, but the firm will carry on its longstanding programme of replacing older, dirtier ships over the lifetime of the new issue.
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Musk's firm joins bumper dollar club and bankers hope other markets could follow
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Market's bellwether forges ahead as pipeline builds
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IPO documents reveal data center portfolio purchase
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Hybrid capital is open to the big US tech companies. But who needs an umbrella when the sun is shining?
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Strong appetite from international banks for first gigascale 24/7 solar plant
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Eighteen year facility backed by EIFO comes as interest in energy infrastructure mounts
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Supra bond shows size is available in Swiss francs for digital deals
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Tighter margin loan a 'sign of things to come' for infrastructure lending
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UK government can find direction by being determined on defence and green growth
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Growing company gets new bank lenders and equity investors
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Asset-based finance exposes investors to counterparty decisions on asset selection, collateral arrangements and servicing
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Business may wind down this month, if it is not rescued
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How to go about the delicate business of dealing with bad behaviour from the boss
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US drug company Eli Lilly jolted the dollar market awake on Wednesday with an eight-part jumbo trade to fund two recent acquisitions
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The US dollar market buoyant this week despite escalating hostilities in the Middle East
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Redwood will be a repeat issuer
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