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Investors seek structured and vanilla FRNs from credit and SSA issuers amid sharp rate fluctuations
Peace agreement will be needed to restore normal enthusiasm
Higher dollar yields dampen some of the callable demand
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Canada could issue its first privately placed medium term notes in over a decade this year, EuroWeek can reveal, as the sovereign looks for alternative international funding tools.
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The eurozone periphery’s two heavyweights had contrasting fortunes this week as talk grew of a 50 year privately placed euro medium term note and 30 year benchmark from Spain while Italy — whose 10 year yields rose above its peer’s for the first time in 18 months — suffered a price spike at auction.
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Annemarie Ganatra has spent much of the last decade covering MTNs for HSBC across the globe. In that time, the market has changed dramatically as the financial crisis of 2008 killed off much of the demand for the more exotic structured trades. She spoke to EuroWeek’s Tessa Wilkie about the evolution of the business.
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Italy found demand at the ultra-long part of the curve this week, with its second private placement of the year following rare appearances by other government-linked Italian issuers in the medium term note market over the past few weeks.
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Finnfund sold its debut bond this week and could come back for more in 2014 after finding strong demand for its paper and credit story.
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New opportunities for issuers of dollar callable zeros could open up in the coming months, with Taiwanese life insurance companies — the main buyer of the product — tipped to look overseas to combat low domestic interest rates.