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K-shaped economy looms over consumer ABS market
Loan margins and spreads have been bid down, even as warning signs rise on asset quality
Critics doubted the EU Green Bond Standard would catch on, but it is gaining new issuers and a following from investors
EDF finds demand for green nuclear power bond
◆ Longer tranches earmarked for Hinkley Point C financing ◆ Books close at just under €11bn ◆ Single digit concessions offered
Iberdrola powers up second EuGB hybrid
◆ Deal is the fourth EuGB labelled hybrid ◆ Issuer punches through fair value... ◆ ...and gets its tightest senior/sub spread
Critics doubted the EU Green Bond Standard would catch on, but it is gaining new issuers and a following from investors
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Regular green bond and social bond could come in rest of 2026, but likely no defence bond -
◆ French supermarket chain extends curve to 2035 ◆ Deal lands through fair value ◆ SLB volumes slide despite 'flexibility'
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◆ Small NIP enough to attract strong bid for long tranche ◆ Investors get selective amid volatility ◆ Commerz fills out its curve with two points
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◆ 'Tight and attractive valuations' for raising tier two capital ◆ Trade follows ratings upgrade ◆ 5bp of concession
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◆ Issuer returns to EuGB label ◆ €4bn trade bigger than last year's debut ◆ 'Very positive' and 'very successful' exercise
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Europe gets first large, general corporate revolving credit facility labelled green
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Indonesia coal producer Indika Energy was back in the debt market on Thursday with a $450m bond.
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Long used to scanning the horizon for risks, central banks have belatedly woken up to the biggest one of all — climate change. Monetary policy has so far been ignored — but the European Central Bank, until now on the fringes of this issue, is plunging in
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While most financiers are focused on dealing with the immediate impact of the pandemic, critics of capitalism are focused on the world after Covid and are determined that wealthy tackle inequality, financial support for the poor, and Earth’s worsening climate.
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The World Bank says it cannot follow its own advice to member countries to cancel debts to poor economies for fearing of losing its AAA status, but a new report says it can bypass that by setting up a new vehicle
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The European Commission has bowed to lobbying by investors and delayed compelling them to follow the detailed requirements of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation — a complex reporting task that is ill-matched with another EU rule, the Taxonomy of Sustainable Economic Activities.
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Greater ESG sophistication is coming to the listed derivatives market, with Eurex Exchange announcing on Wednesday that it intends to launch new contracts that apply a new methodology for ESG exposure.
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Investment bank, like the group, wants to diversify outside France, and will lead with its strongest suit, real assets
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Investors are rewarding Romania for trying to fix its fiscal problems
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Swiss power company issues only five and seven year floaters
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Commerzbank arranges $1.1bn deal for supply of vital raw materials
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Issuance net of buy-backs is not that high, and there is no sign of any indigestion
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Ivory Coast squeezed tight, taking $1.3bn in an 'aggressive' execution
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News could lead bank funding to dry up, after strong run of demand in private market
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Former US undersecretary for international trade expects more stockpiling
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'Important to distinguish between a systemic industry issue and a specific operational challenge' says trade body
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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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Eight banks provided loan facility to company
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Vaccine bond programme to issue $1.5bn this year but needs new pledges
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CAF gearing up to transform regional development
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