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◆ First of seven syndications breaks multiple records ◆ Investor engagement and communications helped stable execution ◆ Smaller programme this year but ‘still a lot’ to tackle
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Busy and ‘euro-heavy’ week ahead but dollar pipeline also building with issuers set to bring forward bond plans
◆ Minimal premium paid ◆ Size at top of range ◆ Issuer seizes upon stability
◆ 'Cautious' start say some market participants ◆ New issue premium debated ◆ Price and size praised by rivals
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  • Emerging market loan bankers have been trying to understand the impact on syndicated lending of the US’s latest sanctions on Russia. The proscriptions have instilled more uncertainty into a collapsing market.
  • Some SSA investors are expecting new records to be broken in European government bond yields, though analysts warned that some sovereigns will still need to actively woo investors if they want to keep their debt prices rising.
  • Russia was slapped with sanctions this week that stop US financial institutions from participating in primary issuance from the sovereign. So far, so terrifying as – eek!— Russia’s main artery of finance has been cut. Only it hasn’t been, not really. Don’t be too surprised if the Russia sovereign comes out soon with an international bond to prove it.
  • CEE
    EM investors are calling the US Treasury’s latest round of sanctions — this time on Russian sovereign debt — confusing and knowingly ineffective.
  • UK sovereign debt yields fell to their lowest level on record on Monday, despite warnings that the new government’s latest spending promises and the threat of a no deal Brexit will heap pressure on the UK’s credit metrics.
  • FIG
    Analysts at Danske Bank have said that Moody's could raise Portugal's credit rating this week even, amid signs of a weakening European economy. Such a move would have a knock-on impact for the country's banking industry, which has shown clear progress in improving its asset quality.