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Swedbank outmanoeuvres hurdles to set sterling record for callable senior bail-in
◆ Issuer finds window between political volatility and supply onslaught ◆ Deal sets record low spread for callable sterling senior bail-in debt ◆ Investors remain on board despite tight price
◆ First IG corporate SLB of the year ◆ Deal lands at tight end of guidance ◆ Interest in SLB format on the slide
Mizuho suffers rough attrition on tight two-part bond
◆ Deal unaffected by Japanese macro volatility, lead said ◆ Aggressive pricing led to heavy long-end attrition ◆ Continuing trend of heavy supply for dual tranche holdco senior trades
Fluvius garners whopping demand for €650m green bond
◆ Belgian utility goes for 10 year paper ◆ Issuer set final size at guidance ◆ Deal skims through fair value
◆ First IG corporate SLB of the year ◆ Deal lands at tight end of guidance ◆ Interest in SLB format on the slide
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New product 'ticks boxes' including more investor diversification for Paris-based supranational, which also sold its largest Kangaroo
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◆ UK lender raises $4.5bn-equivalent in five senior holding company tranches this week ◆ Both deals target long dated funding ◆ Despite secondary widening, euro offering lands with hardly any premium
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◆ Insurance companies anchor long dated green tranche with near-4% yield ◆ Curve extension debated ◆ Deal comes amid widening secondary spreads but lands with negligible premium
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Newfoundland prints 20 year, Crédit Agricole debuts a green covered bond
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Sterling deal securitizes two data centres in Slough
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Bank of America has set up an EMEA ESG strategic council chaired and led by three senior investment bankers, to intensify its effort to reduce its carbon footprint and manage its climate risks.
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Leaving investment banking to join the world of impact investing and environmental NGOs is not something people do lightly. But having made that move a decade ago, Keith Tuffley has been tempted back, to help shape the response of Citigroup’s investment bank to the accelerating rise of sustainability.
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Biodiversity — long overshadowed by climate change as the financial world has started to get to grips with environmental issues — has leapt up the agenda with the launch on Friday of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures.
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Sustainable securitization is moving into the mainstream, with a growing number of managers adopting ESG language in CLOs — usually through excluding specific industries from investment. What’s next in the green securitization revolution will depend on building a rigorous framework for assessing ESG factors and how to create standards. Paola Aurisicchio reports.
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Royal Dutch Shell was on the receiving end of a landmark court ruling last week that will compel the company to take profound climate change mitigation action. Not that you’d know from Shell’s bond curve. Time for fixed income investors to pull their heads out of the oil sand.
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Three unprecedented events this week — a landmark court ruling against Shell and shareholder revolts at Chevron and ExxonMobil — signalled that investors and society at large have rejected the oil industry’s early attempts at joining the low carbon transition and are looking for much more radical action. Oil majors retain good access to capital markets, but the clock is ticking. Jon Hay reports.
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◆ Second ever bond for the issuer ◆ Deal marketed to both SSA and credit investors ◆ Offers potential for tightening on the back of southern European convergence trade
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BSTDB has had a tricky time since Russia attacked Ukraine, both of which are shareholders
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Commodities trader halves its stake for £132m after shares soar
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◆ Deal follows NextEra’s euro hybrid debut last year ◆ Eight year tranche draws the larger book ◆ More Reverse Yankee issuance expected to follow
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The familiar problem of inter-creditor opacity has also reappeared
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'Hard to classify' Italian corporate trade being marketed to FIG and SSA accounts
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Craig Coben examines whether it is true that no good deed goes unpunished
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Investors and bankers grapple with 24% fall in Bitcoin since deal was rated
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Investment banking travel was a relentless grind, not gold card access to global glamour
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Eight banks provided loan facility to company
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Vaccine bond programme to issue $1.5bn this year but needs new pledges
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