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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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◆ Big books and 0bp to 2bp concession for Orange ◆ US-China trade agreement buoys markets ◆ Premiums tipped to rise
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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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GlobalCapital has argued that it is not the ECB’s job to exclude individual borrowers’ bonds from its list of repo-eligible securities on environmental grounds, in response to our call for the Province of Alberta’s debt to be removed from its list of eligible marketable assets (EMA). We maintain that the ECB has plenty of justification to exclude this borrower.
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China’s ecological and financial regulators have jointly published guidelines around climate change-related financing and investment.
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The threat to biodiversity is moving up the agenda of financial markets, but banks are woefully unprepared, a new study has found — in fact, they are actively financing what scientists believe is a mass extinction of species.
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An ESG think tank believes that the European Central Bank should drop Alberta’s euro bonds from its list of eligible marketable assets, as a punishment for its support for polluting industries. But while it is a laudable aim, it is not practicable.
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UK banks and building societies are struggling with difficult aspects of incorporating climate change into their risk management, as demanded by the regulator, a PwC survey has found. The answer to some of their problems could be a non-risk initiative: science-based targets.
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One by one, banks are taking responsibility to help fight climate change, by setting targets to eliminate carbon emissions from their whole financing portfolios by 2050. This will not suffice. Banks must learn a new way of interacting with clients.
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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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