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KfW edges closer to green issuance target
Issuer spends time on pricing with two-step tightening in latest euro benchmark
The clean energy company has hit fair value
IG corporates bring small benchmarks as market welcomes breather
◆ Smaller trades populate market after roaring week ◆ Air France KLM keeps hybrid momentum going ◆ Cencora and Icade bring no-grow bonds
Investors make their preferences clear in rare SBAB and Raiffeisen Croatia senior syndications
◆ Both banks issue their second ever euro deals in respective asset classes ◆ SBAB prints much tighter but also ends up with lower oversubscription ◆ Higher spread pick-up on the Croatian deal lures buyers as issuer's credit profile improves
The clean energy company has hit fair value
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◆ New deals expected to encourage other borrowers into euros and sterling ◆ Tight funder DNB shows spreads still a touch wider than pre-tariff volatility ◆ Lloyds' home foray underlines improved relative funding cost in sterling -
◆ Demand solid across seniorities ◆ Hybrid regular Veolia moves into green structure◆ Swisscom shows investors also looking for thinly priced debt
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Diversity of deals on offer as recession fears subside
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◆ US gives further clues on MDB support ◆ FIG issuers face funding choices ◆ What's the point of the EU green bond standard?
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Almost Sfr3bn printed in first week of May as Swiss franc mart shakes off tariff spectre
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Only a trickle of issuers have printed green bonds under the new standards so far
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The European Central Bank will use a new climate change centre to improve its work on the topic, while also investing in a new green bond fund set up by the Bank for International Settlements.
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Three of the most active banks in financing oil exports from the Ecuadorian Amazon — an environmentally destructive industry with a long track record of trampling on indigenous people’s rights — have agreed to cease important parts of their financial support, after pressure from NGOs and a devastating oil spill in 2020.
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A cross-party group of UK members of Parliament has written to Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England, calling on the Bank to start greening its quantitative easing and Covid support programmes.
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Securitization is emerging as the last resort for some US oil and gas companies seeking funding. Banks are deserting the equity and reserve-based lending markets they rely upon. But investors have proved eager to deploy capital in well-structured shale deals that can yield as much as 6%, meaning the ABS market may provide a lifeline for the struggling energy firms, writes Jennifer Kang.
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One of the boldest initiatives to green the financial system is getting under way this year, as the members of the Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance begin a drive to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of entities they invest in by between 16% and 29% in the next five years.
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Passive investors are expected to become a bigger force in environmental, social and governance debt investing this year, as index providers and asset managers expand the range of products that apply ESG criteria to bonds.
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Securitization will be central to EBRD’s new five year strategy
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Bank to keep backing Ukraine and start operations in Benin, Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria
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US administration has cut funding for IFAD and said nothing about EBRD
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Issuance plans sketched out but defence-orientated MDB must gain inter-governmental support first
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Former JP Morgan DCM head and RBS treasurer join as special advisors to multilateral defence funder
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Kai van der Kolk will advise on corporate finance transactions in the sector
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I manage my team the way I was managed — to get results. Now I'm being punished for it. It feels more than a little hypocritical
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Investment banks wishing to cut costs with AI should remember what clients pay for
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The processes of choosing a new Pope and someone to run Crédit Agricole’s CIB may have more in common than you think
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DocMorris announces Sfr200m rights issue expected in May
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Stock drops 17% in highly volatile market
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Deal follows steep share price fall
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