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Roundtable: European sovereign issuers look to varied maturities to bring in new investors
Amid tight budgetary conditions, including persistent inflation, volatile markets and geopolitical tensions, sovereign issuers in the EU face continuous pressure to fulfil borrowing requirements. Simultaneously, these same issuers are having to confront different challenges that range from the growing impact of hedge funds in their order books, and whether this is a good or a bad thing, how to convince new investors that their home currency, the euro, is an alternative to the dollar and how aligned EU capital markets should become and what form this should take. GlobalCapital assembled sovereign debt issuers to discuss borrowing requirements and how they are being met, what the diversification of their investor bases means for the products they offer and the benefits of harmonisation and simpler regulation in the EU.
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Nordic Investment Bank raised €500m on Thursday, tapping a green April 2027 line in an otherwise deserted SSA market. -
The European Union’s final draft Taxonomy of Sustainable Economic Activities came in for heavy criticism from a European bank's head of funding on Thursday, who said that the compromise wording would torpedo the market for green covered bonds.
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Shipping company Hapag-Lloyd on Thursday priced the second sustainability-linked bond to hit the euro high yield market, with the new issue’s coupon tied to cuts to the carbon intensity of its fleet. Proceeds refinance an old bond, but the firm will carry on its longstanding programme of replacing older, dirtier ships over the lifetime of the new issue.
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Aluminium company Novelis, a subsidiary of Indian conglomerate Aditya Birla, has issued its debut green bond, a €500m eight year non-call three to refinance part of its term loans signed in 2017.
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The New Development Bank sold a Rmb5bn ($767m) Panda bond aligned to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals this week. The deal, expected to help mitigate the impact of Covid-19 on the Chinese economy, was priced flat to China Development Bank’s yield curve, and saw solid demand from international investors. Addison Gong reports.
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The European securitization market is seeing a faster pace of ESG deals but it needs to find more ESG-friendly assets before it can expect much more issuance. Peter Winning, portfolio manager and analyst in BlackRock's EMEA ABS team, spoke with GlobalCapital to outline how the world’s largest asset manager invests in ESG securitizations.
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