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‘Extremely busy’ August restart in store for SSA market
'Dead quiet' few weeks will benefit issuers as excess bonds need absorption before issuance starts to ‘fire on all cylinders’ from August 17
Green investors buy when everyone else stops, giving issuers one last pricing lever — perhaps to cross a line none of them wants to reach
EM bond surge in September at risk if new burst of war reignites inflation
Market is in good shape, but will not stay that way if war drags on over summer
Brookfield asks to defer interest on German multifamily CMBS
Restructuring of €316m deal from 2021 is likely
Green investors buy when everyone else stops, giving issuers one last pricing lever — perhaps to cross a line none of them wants to reach
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Obvion has mandated Rabobank and Société Générale for its €500m Storm 2021-1 transaction, offering a single tranche to investors with a 75bp coupon over three-month Euribor, expected to price above par. The transaction is the issuer’s first since the Covid-19 lockdowns began. -
Ahold Delhaize, the Dutch food retailer, has mandated banks for a debut sustainability-linked bond, as it continues to push its capital structure towards socially conscious financing.
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The European Union completed another chunk from its Support to mitigate Unemployment Risks in an Emergency (SURE) funding programme on Tuesday, leaving the issuer with up to €13bn more to raise before the end of March.
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Trading levels given are bid-side spreads versus mid-swaps and/or an underlying benchmark and bid-yields from the close of business on Monday, March 8. The source for secondary trading levels is ICE Data Services.
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Turkish lender Akbank is in the syndicated loan market with its debut ESG deal, according to sources. The bank has been able to tighten pricing on the refinancing, meaning that it has enough competitively priced funding for it not to need to come to the bond market.
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Intesa Sanpaolo saved a couple of basis points with the sale of a new senior bond from its green issuance framework on Tuesday, compared to fair value on a conventional deal. The new issue came as markets remained on edge ahead of the European Central Bank’s next meeting.
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Musk's firm joins bumper dollar club and bankers hope other markets could follow
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Market's bellwether forges ahead as pipeline builds
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IPO documents reveal data center portfolio purchase
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Hybrid capital is open to the big US tech companies. But who needs an umbrella when the sun is shining?
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Strong appetite from international banks for first gigascale 24/7 solar plant
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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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Tighter margin loan a 'sign of things to come' for infrastructure lending
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UK government can find direction by being determined on defence and green growth
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Growing company gets new bank lenders and equity investors
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Asset-based finance exposes investors to counterparty decisions on asset selection, collateral arrangements and servicing
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Business may wind down this month, if it is not rescued
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How to go about the delicate business of dealing with bad behaviour from the boss
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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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The US dollar market buoyant this week despite escalating hostilities in the Middle East
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Redwood will be a repeat issuer
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