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Estonia's Coop Pank enters securitization market with €249m SRT

First exclusively Estonian securitization the European Investment Bank has supported
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The sovereign, supranational and agency bond market in 2025 featured a number of innovative debuts, bringing new issuers to this most venerable of asset classes. Meanwhile, some of its biggest names priced stellar deals, breaking records and pioneering new formats even in volatile markets

Bond Deals of the Year: Investment grade corporates — Corporate issuers go hyperscale

Investment grade companies demonstrated just how much liquidity was sloshing around in the euro, dollar, sterling and Swiss franc markets with a string of large deals. But these bonds did not just stand out for the amount issued. Rather, they showed that there is not always a trade-off to be made between size and price
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Bond Deals of the Year: Financial institutions — FIG issuers find new ways into old markets

With a relentless flow of cash into credit markets this year, almost every borrower could be said to have done well. But some issuers stood out for their ability to establish new footholds in certain markets that have since paved the way for peers
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The sovereign, supranational and agency bond market in 2025 featured a number of innovative debuts, bringing new issuers to this most venerable of asset classes. Meanwhile, some of its biggest names priced stellar deals, breaking records and pioneering new formats even in volatile markets
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    UniCredit has hired an executive from Zurich Insurance as head of group ESG strategy and impact banking.
  • Each week, GlobalCapital journalists share some of the most interesting things they have been reading, from the profound to the quirky. This week has been marked by widespread protests across the US and the wider world, in reaction to an unarmed African-American man, George Floyd, dying while a policeman knelt on his neck in Minneapolis.
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    Almost three quarters of emerging market companies have an environmental, social and governance, or sustainability policy in place — although that has not yet translated into guaranteed higher returns, according to research by Bank of America.
  • Samruk-Kazyna, the Kazakh sovereign wealth fund, raised $206.7m on Tuesday night through a share placing in Kazatomprom, the country’s state uranium company. Emerging markets investors, who have been lacking new paper during the coronavirus crisis, lapped up the shares.
  • The meat, dairy and fish industries are harbouring grave risks of causing future pandemics, and must radically improve their safety procedures, according to an investor coalition which controls $21tr of assets.
  • Capital markets players love to talk about being socially responsible. The death of George Floyd shows talk has got society nowhere. It is time for action.