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Crédit Agricole impresses as three tranche covered stretches to 10 years

◆ Large demand for all tranches, including rare FRN ◆ Despite flat swap curve long end 'flies' ◆ Higher yields a boon for investors
◆ 'Moderate' oversubscription levels ◆ Belfius offers higher NIP for larger size ◆ SpareBank achieves tighter pricing on green five year

Genser Energy Ghana secures €450m package from first all-bank syndicate

Absa, FirstRand and Standard Bank were MLAs in first deal after private equity exit

When pricing fails, finance must speak

Global warming is coming for portfolios everywhere. Good luck finding any escape
◆ 'Moderate' oversubscription levels ◆ Belfius offers higher NIP for larger size ◆ SpareBank achieves tighter pricing on green five year
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  • Credit Suisse has launched an environmental, social and governance (ESG) advisory group in its investment banking and capital markets division, becoming the latest firm to launch a dedicated green corporate finance coverage effort.
  • Bond market participants in Latin America are gradually accepting that Zoom video calls will become a permanent feature of their job. However, in this particularly travel-intensive segment of capital markets, when it comes to selling a product, neither issuers nor bankers appear willing to cut down visits to clients in a region where personal trust is arguably more important than anywhere else.
  • Beijing Enterprises Clean Energy Group is back in the offshore loan market, seeking a $150m borrowing seven months after its last deal.
  • Spain’s Red Eléctrica Corporación has hired banks to run a series of fixed income investor calls for a debut five year senior unsecured deal, in the first European corporate roadshow since stringent social distancing measures were implemented across the continent.
  • Equity capital markets are adjusting to life in quarantine, with most bankers saying they are well set up to work remotely during Covid-19 lockdowns. Even syndicate bankers, natural sceptics to home working, are starting to have faith that business can be done at a distance.
  • The loans market has been one part of the capital markets that has perhaps unsurprisingly taken to working from home easier than most. Some loans bankers even see a world after the pandemic where one or two days a week working out of the office becomes the norm.