The Netherlands
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The trend for corporate issuers in Europe in 2017 has been to sell bonds with longer tenors. However, among this week’s deals were three short dated floating rate notes, which all garnered huge demand. -
More socially responsible investment paper from public sector issuers keeps arriving on screens, but despite the deluge, borrowers are still managing super-tight spreads and selling healthily subscribed deals. And there’s still more to come.
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Nederlandse Waterschapsbank (NWB) launched a four year green bond on Tuesday, pricing flat to its curve and clearing the way for Agence Française de Développement (AFD) to attempt to emulate the Dutch agency’s success.
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The trend for corporate issuers in 2017 has been to sell bonds with longer tenors, but in among a five deal issuance spree on Monday was a couple of two year floating rate notes from rare issuers.
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Achmea Bank has mandated leads to market its inaugural conditional passthrough covered bond programme, with the bank eyeing a €500m seven year deal.
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A wave of public sector borrowers is set to hit screens next week, providing investors who have recently been lacking socially responsible bond issues with a well stocked menu of ethically themed deals.
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Last week was a momentous one for dollar borrowing in the SSA market. The European Stability Mechanism made its long awaited debut in dollars, swiftly followed by a pair of rare 10 year transactions. Read on to see how the BondMarker voters rated the deals.
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Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten (BNG) launched its fourth sustainability bond on Thursday, printing €750m into what one head of DCM away from the trade called a “massively oversubscribed book”, in what is likely a good omen for the approaching wave of SRI borrowing.
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A pair of Dutch public sector borrowers are set to come to market with socially responsible investment bonds. The deals form the first wave of an approaching flood of SSA SRI borrowing.
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Fugro, the Dutch geosciences company, returned to the equity-linked market on Monday when it issued a €100m subordinated convertible bond due in 2024 to finance the early repayment of senior debt and US private placement notes.
