Deal refinances a $500m loan

◆ First unsecured deal in 10 months ◆ Spread on offer ◆ PBB looking to make net profit this year following 2025 net loss

◆ Scottish Hydro tests long-dated sterling demand ◆ Tight pricing limits further tightening from guidance ◆ Cadent extends its euro curve with 10 year trade

◆ German utilities taps improving bond market ◆ Demand holds firm across six and 11 year tranches ◆ Fair value debated

Investors in CEE corporate debt find Orlen a 'preferred asset'

◆ French bank returns after January amid scarcity for senior debt ◆ Investors like what they see as there is no book attrition ◆ Seven year tenor lures broader appetite

Musk's firm joins bumper dollar club and bankers hope other markets could follow

Market's bellwether forges ahead as pipeline builds

Deal includes floating rate note

IPO documents reveal data center portfolio purchase

AI issuance is becoming increasingly concentrated — beware

Hybrid capital is open to the big US tech companies. But who needs an umbrella when the sun is shining?

Momentum is growing for the economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic to have a strong green thrust, as the UK’s mini-Budget and comments by European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde made clear this week. Capital market participants are enthusiastic about the prospect and expect it to further green the markets — but how far the drive goes will ultimately depend on politics, write Mike Turner, Jon Hay and Jasper Cox.

A European Union recovery fund proposal is expected to be presented to a summit of European leaders on July 17-18. Its size is to remain unchanged from a proposed €500bn of grants and €250bn of loans, but the EU budget is likely to be slimmed down, according to sources.

Equity investors are turning their focus away from rescue capital raises and towards other long-term priorities after the initial shock of the Covid-19 outbreak. At the beginning of the year, increased investor scrutiny of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors was on the tip of all tongues in Europe’s equity capital markets, and it is now featuring heavily in conversations again.

The World Bank has abandoned its plans for a follow-up to its pandemic bond. That is a pity. Although its attempt wasn’t perfect, the format is a valuable concept and shouldn’t be abandoned because of one flawed deal.

Each week, Keeping Tabs brings you the very best of what we in the GlobalCapital newsroom have found most useful, interesting and informative from around the web. This week: supervising financial reporting, a discordant health and financial picture in emerging markets, and managing climate risk.

It can hardly be said that the process of releasing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac out of government conservatorship has been rushed. The painstaking process has taken place over the course more than a decade and has consumed the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) through two presidential administrations. And yet, FHFA capital requirements proposals published this week for the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) may not go far enough to ensure their safety and soundness.

How to go about the delicate business of dealing with bad behaviour from the boss

Issuer asks for interest payment holiday, parent DigitalBridge likely to step in

Credit quality of loans in CLO portfolios becomes increasingly important following the first CLO 2.0 liability impairment

US drug company Eli Lilly jolted the dollar market awake on Wednesday with an eight-part jumbo trade to fund two recent acquisitions

The US dollar market buoyant this week despite escalating hostilities in the Middle East

Redwood will be a repeat issuer