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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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Verbund, the Austrian electricity company, became the first European issuer to sell a green sustainability-linked bond on Wednesday. The highly rated issuer printed 20 year debt at a razor-thin spread. -
Unédic, the French unemployment agency, had the euro SSA primary market to itself on Wednesday, allowing it to comfortably print €3bn with its second social bond benchmark of the year.
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Europe’s high grade bond market continued to pump out deals on Wednesday, with Vantage Towers raising three tranches of debt after its IPO and Japan’s Nidec selling a green trade.
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A trio of SSAs brought SRI themed Kangaroo bonds to market this week, enjoying a recent bout of tranquillity following the Reserve Bank of Australia’s intervention.
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Oesterreichische Kontrollbank (OeKB) debuted its sustainability framework in Norwegian kroner this week. With dollar swap spreads compressed, opportunities are opening for competitive funding in other, more niche markets.
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German optics maker Jenoptik has sold €400m-equivalent worth of sustainability-linked Schuldscheine, with around 250 investors participating in the euro and dollar deal.
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Eighteen year facility backed by EIFO comes as interest in energy infrastructure mounts
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Supra bond shows size is available in Swiss francs for digital deals
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US drug company Eli Lilly jolted the dollar market awake on Wednesday with an eight-part jumbo trade to fund two recent acquisitions
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Redwood will be a repeat issuer
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