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'Dead quiet' few weeks will benefit issuers as excess bonds need absorption before issuance starts to ‘fire on all cylinders’ from August 17
Green investors buy when everyone else stops, giving issuers one last pricing lever — perhaps to cross a line none of them wants to reach
◆ Scaled-back bank treasuries snap up rare seven year floater ◆ Dollar FRN drought eases as World Bank extends curve ◆ Floater lands inside fixed rate funding levels
◆ New sterling five year lands after BoE Level B upgrade ◆ Dollar FRN 'snowball' as $2bn raised ◆ Callable issuance steady as zero structures cool
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Policy lender China Development Bank printed a dual-currency, three-tranche transaction on Tuesday, raising $2.4bn-equivalent. While it paid just a couple of basis points of new issue premium for the dollar bonds amid a short-lived market rally, demand for the euro portion exceeded expectations.
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The European Stability Mechanism has softened the eligibility criteria for its precautionary credit lines under a eurozone reform package sealed by the European Union on Tuesday.
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The European Union was the sole public sector borrower in the market on Tuesday, reopening its April 2033s in a week that bankers said is likely to be the “last very good window” for issuance before the end of the year.
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UBI Banca includes financing for "religious entities" as an eligible category under its new social bonds framework, listing eligible organisations as those “aiming at reducing exclusions and inequalities”. But it would take a miracle for the world’s largest religions — with their central tenets of ‘we’re special and you’re not’ — to meet that requirement, raising the question of who actually qualifies.
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The EU moved a step forward on its tortuous path towards completing its Banking Union on Monday night. Finance ministers agreed on some details relating to a backstop for the fund for resolving banks, but have not yet shown any sign of agreeing on a common deposit insurance scheme.
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LBBW has hired an origination and syndication banker for its SSA team in Stuttgart, which now comprises five people.