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Nordea Bank equals tight tier two in 'constructive window'
◆ Deal is joint tightest in the asset class since October 2021 ◆ Finishes with larger book than Nordea's November 2025 outing ◆ 'Flight to quality', outright rates and search for sub paper power strong outcome
Universal Music, Alstom and Sanctuary Group among those lining up euro and sterling trades
ADB joins seven year party with €1.25bn green deal
◆ Supra prices inside peers’ seven year deals ◆ Slim NIP paid after 3bp tightening ◆ ‘Very strong day’ for SSA market
Alstom rides hybrid demand with €700m inaugural EuGB
◆ French rail group skips guidance after books top €4.5bn ◆ Issuer tightens spread sharply and increases deal size ◆ Hybrid format helps strengthen IG rating
Universal Music, Alstom and Sanctuary Group among those lining up euro and sterling trades
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Issuer further advances year's funding, now funded $10bn of $12bn current target -
◆ A longer maturity to stand apart ◆ Treasury diversificaiton bid ◆ Structured note investors
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◆ Hong Kong rail operator takes size with three tranche trade ◆ Tight spreads achieved across all legs ◆ Deal offers rare exposure to Hong Kong-based corporates in euros
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◆ Wider optically, tighter underneath ◆ High quality from outset ◆ Pragmaticism on last basis point
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◆ Busy couple of weeks the Spanish public sector ◆ Madrid, Andalucia also printed, Basque next ◆ 1bp of NIP paid on slightly softer day
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‘Look at the issuer as a whole’ is the mantra of the corporate and supranational green bond markets, and rightly so. But we need to apply the same approach to sovereigns.
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“What gets measured gets managed,” goes an old saw popular in sustainable finance circles. If companies, investors and banks, the argument says, collect better environmental and social data, this knowledge will naturally breed improvements in performance.
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Tullow Oil is marketing a new $1.8bn senior secured bond to repay its near-term maturities and cancel its reserve-based lending facility entirely, ending the twice yearly cycle of RBL determinations that has pushed some oil explorers close to the edge since the coronavirus pandemic struck.
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Senator Marco Rubio is the latest Republican in the US to launch an attack on what conservative voices have recently dubbed “woke capital,” apparently putting the GOP at odds with an investment world that has embraced ESG.
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Market participants will embark in the coming weeks on the difficult task of working out how to use the European Union’s sustainable finance Taxonomy, after the first criteria were published this week. In doing so, they will be conscious that the smooth tide of green finance is now breaking against the hard reality of power politics and resistance by fossil fuel industries — a clash that is rocking the Taxonomy’s credibility, writes Jon Hay.
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Kenneth Lay, chair of the International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm), is no stranger to using financial innovation to help tackle some of the world's biggest problems. He spoke to GlobalCapital about the importance of IFFIm as a vehicle to finance the global vaccine rollout in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
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Increased investor interest in utilities hybrids could bring down subordination premium, says SSE treasurer
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Divisions deepen over multilateral development banks’ climate commitments
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◆ UK utility prints €1.3bn dual trancher ◆ Issuer skips guidance as it masses orders north of €10bn ◆ Longer call leg draws stronger demand
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Inclusion of a variable rate instrument was not acceptable to official creditors
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Thibaut Makarovsky, head of funding and market operations at AFD, discusses his recent dollar trade and funding plans
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It is not clear what needs to be restructured, and the coming debt analysis may lack credibility
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Sovereign bond print went ahead despite missile and drone attacks just before pricing
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Choosing the right tools mitigates the risk of spiraling bills
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It's not the juniors in capital markets who need protecting from obsolescence. They stand to benefit most from the deployment of AI
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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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