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CEB plunges into Sofr FRNs with $500m debut
New product 'ticks boxes' including more investor diversification for Paris-based supranational, which also sold its largest Kangaroo
Newfoundland prints 20 year, Crédit Agricole debuts a green covered bond
Lloyds lifts green senior euros after Yankee foray
◆ 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
Crédit Agricole differentiates from competition with 'untested' 12 year SNP bullet
◆ 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
Newfoundland prints 20 year, Crédit Agricole debuts a green covered bond
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Sterling deal securitizes two data centres in Slough
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International interest for German paper has grown
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◆ Dutch lender's latest €2.5bn senior holdco follows Aussie domestic senior foray ◆ Comes a day after $1.5bn AT1 and before green RMBS ◆ Demand for senior unsecured assets is strong as ING clears big funding with limited, if any, new issue concession
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◆ Issuer's first green benchmark in 2026 ◆ Blended premium estimated ◆ Central bank/official institution allocations 'notable and high' for green label
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Bankers insist sustainability-linked loans are here to stay
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◆ Demand sticky despite tight pricing ◆ Trade performing in secondary ◆ Tight senior/sub spread spotted
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This week in Keeping Tabs: whether investors are prepared for the impact of a Joe Biden win on environmental policy, how bond and syndicated loan markets diverged in the crisis, and a crypto app that tanked.
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Real money investors have historically avoided the reputational risk involved in participating in sovereign debt restructurings. But a truly socially responsible investor should embrace these situations — for the sake of both their clients and troubled emerging nations.
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Morgan Stanley Investment Management has set up a European corporate fund and a European strategic fund, both earmarked as sustainable.
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Delek Drilling, the Israeli energy company, launched a $2.25bn bond sale on Tuesday, in one of the few high yield emerging market bond deals seen during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Each week Keeping Tabs beings you the most interesting and entertaining reading from around the web that we have uncovered. This week, the perils of the EU recovery fund through the lens of the subject of Broadway's hottest show, a menacing whiteness of swans and a grim view of Hong Kong's future in finance.
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The US Department of Labour (DoL) has proposed what it characterises as a reiteration of what has always been required of retirement fiduciaries — that they act in the best interest of their beneficiaries — urging them to disregard ESG considerations in investment decisions. In doing so, it appears not to have noticed the last decade in financial markets, which has shown that ESG investing is very much in investors’ interests.
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◆ Second ever bond for the issuer ◆ Deal marketed to both SSA and credit investors ◆ Offers potential for tightening on the back of southern European convergence trade
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BSTDB has had a tricky time since Russia attacked Ukraine, both of which are shareholders
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Commodities trader halves its stake for £132m after shares soar
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◆ Deal follows NextEra’s euro hybrid debut last year ◆ Eight year tranche draws the larger book ◆ More Reverse Yankee issuance expected to follow
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The familiar problem of inter-creditor opacity has also reappeared
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'Hard to classify' Italian corporate trade being marketed to FIG and SSA accounts
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Investors and bankers grapple with 24% fall in Bitcoin since deal was rated
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Investment banking travel was a relentless grind, not gold card access to global glamour
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Books were nearly three times the issue size
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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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