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IFC’s first synthetic securitization powers up EM trade finance

Deal liberates capital and tempts investors to take new frontier market risk

Burst of Nordic FIG senior issuance compensates for this year's lower euro volume

Deals price tightly to Western European peers, with high-spread Icelandic banks performing the most

ING goes green with 12NC7 tier two

◆ ING brings its first euro capital trade of 2026 ◆ Fair value debated ◆ ING's and Intesa's tier two deals were "not a competition"
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  • China Three Gorges Corp, the Chinese state-owned power company, has successfully offloaded €292m of stock in Portuguese energy firm Energias de Portugal, despite four straight days of heavy losses in European equity markets, due to the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus across the continent.
  • Europe's high grade loan bankers are expecting better things from the second quarter of the year, citing the resolution of a handful of macro events. But the rise of the Covid-19 coronavirus hammered the markets this week, which has the potential to put companies off raising loan debt until the second half of the year.
  • Hamburg Commercial Bank will no longer visit Milan on the roadshow for its new tier two bond, with parts of northern Italy having been locked down to contain the spread of Covid-19. But issuers and investors are still managing to get on with their business amid the mounting chaos.