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'The year is getting shorter': KfW brings 2026's final large benchmark
German agency has only €2bn to €2.5bn left to fund via smaller deals after €3bn green tap this week
◆ Receptive but crowded FIG market requires concessions for funding to clear ◆ BBVA goes big with its first SP in more than two years ◆ Bawag issues first bond after PTSB acquisition
DNB Bank pockets another tight €500m tier two
◆ Follows similar deal from regional peer Swedbank ◆ But earlier bond was already trading wide of reoffer ◆ Pricing prioritised, says banker off deal
Rabobank and BBVA target 'attractive' sterling market with rare, larger deals
◆ Stability leads to third day of FIG sterling issuance ◆ Rabo prints its first tier two four years ◆ BBVA completes first sterling senior bond since 2020
◆ Receptive but crowded FIG market requires concessions for funding to clear ◆ BBVA goes big with its first SP in more than two years ◆ Bawag issues first bond after PTSB acquisition
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Japanese government bond yields have risen during the last few months -
Attractive pricing versus dollars luring GCC borrowers back to the single currency
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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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Data center developer faces October deadline to repay 2021 ABS
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Leads consider dropping some seven year bonds, preserving five years
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◆ US food group funds M&A with first euro bond ◆ €500m no-grow draws more than €1.65bn at peak ◆ Tenor choice helps issuer find demand
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Triple-A notes were originally guided at mid to high 100s
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◆ Amazon adds sterling to funding tool kit ◆ Deal the second largest in the currency after Alphabet's own debut ◆ Trade prices tight but higher price needed for size
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◆ Five-part debut draws more than €21bn of peak orders ◆ Uber offers diversification from hyperscaler-heavy US supply ◆ Issuer leaves concessions on table to secure size
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Deal multiple times oversubscribed as investors buy into electrification and AI story
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◆ Another French agency brings early autumn deal ◆ International investors show support ◆ Priced to ensure performance
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Shareholders sell down holdings in AutoStore and Orsted, as shipping company opens books ahead of Athens parallel listing
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Société Générale and Standard Chartered provided euro and yen tranches respectively in first World Bank-backed transaction involving the Japanese currency
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EM debt investors had largely expected a debt treatment would be required
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Belgian car leasing company taps four banks and three investment firms
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As war drags on, banks are boosting hoards of cash after deposit outflows
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The euro tranche is a refi of a bond maturing later in September
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Having to rate money-guzzling Anthropic and OpenAI will test the agencies’ nerve
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US dollar market bursts to life after Labor Day holiday
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Bankers welcome third and fourth deal in two weeks
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◆ Pharma firm returns to euros after two years away ◆ Some concession needed for slim covered deal ◆ Koninklijke Philips adds to biotech flow
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