The Netherlands
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Several SSA borrowers hit the market in dollars this week, with most achieving strong results in spite of the sharp moves in the underlying rates market. -
Dutch agencies were active in core currency MTN markets earlier this week, including FMO, which sold its first currency-linked bond for almost a year.
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Bart Van Dooren, head of funding and investor relations at Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten, will be retiring in January.
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A flurry of dollar issuance hit the market on Tuesday, covering a wide range of spreads and formats.
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Aegon Bank has registered its soft bullet covered bond programme with the Dutch central bank and has published its base prospectus, suggesting it could be ready to mandate leads after posting results this week. Aegon follows NN Bank, which became the first Dutch bank to switch away from using conditional pass through (CPT) covered bonds, with Achmea Bank set to follow.
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Basic Fit, the Dutch low-cost gyms operator, has sold €204m of new shares to finance growth opportunities once its sites are permitted to reopen.
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Shares in Allfunds, the B2B fund distribution platform, rocketed on Friday, their first day of trading in Amsterdam. The news was a bonus for an IPO market which had started to stutter. This week Synlab the German laboratory technology company has struggled to get its IPO covered and the listing of Trustly, the Swedish fintech unicorn has been pulled.
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Trading levels given are bid-side spreads versus mid-swaps and/or an underlying benchmark and bid-yields from the close of business on Monday, April 19. The source for secondary trading levels is ICE Data Services.
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Nederlandse Waterschapsbank was twice covered and paid zero new issue premium as it sold an intraday 30 year water bond on Monday. The European Union will follow into the euro public sector bond market on Tuesday to fund a maturity lengthening operation under its European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism programme.
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Allfunds, the B2B fund distribution platform, has opened the book on its Amsterdam IPO and named several high quality cornerstone investors which are backing the deal. However, not all deals are proving to be as popular as this one and bankers say the IPO market is splitting into those firms which can and those which cannot.
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