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Sfr4.9bn trade is largest European ECM deal since National Grid’s £7bn rights issue in 2024
Offer came as markets recovered and volatility fell
Abbott Laboratories plundered $20bn as it led a trio of drug companies which printed jumbo bonds as a deluge of supply in the dollar market ensured a red-hot end to the month.
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Investors are increasingly focused on non-call risk in European securitizations, with specialist lenders in the firing line. Investors say roadshow conversations led them to believe that non-call risk would not be a feature of the post-2008 ABS market.
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A financial industry fightback against bans on short selling by some jurisdictions is picking up pace, as lobbyists argued against the restrictions this week.
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If Europe's corporate bond lead managers have been learning that it is possible to bring new issues even on a day when stock markets are falling and credit spreads widening, they still know a bullish day when they see one, and Tuesday was one.
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Canadian banks are among the largest, most profitable and best rated in the world, but that does not grant them immunity from liquidity bottlenecks. A recent spree of deals — although in some ways a show of might — illustrated that even the most fortified of lenders can appear vulnerable.
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The European Stability Mechanism has added a new 12-month bill programme for the second quarter as it looks to manage its collateral requirements amid volatility in rates. ESM and the European Financial Stability Facility have also set out their issuance windows for benchmark deals in April to June.
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Equity capital markets in Europe got off to a great start in the first quarter of 2020, but any optimism about more deal flow has swiftly been killed off by the onset of a global equity market sell-off sparked by the spread of the coronavirus across the globe and the shutdown of major economies.