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Central banks’ power to trigger demand in corporate bond markets was on show this week after investment grade sterling bond funds recorded their highest ever level of inflows, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch analysts. -
After a busy year of loan financing, investment manager Foresight Solar Fund is ready to make acquisitions, after under-performing in the first half of the year.
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BNP Paribas has combined its primary markets debt business and credit markets under one management team, co-headed by Martin Egan and Benjamin Jacquard.
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MAS Real Estate, the European property company, has sold 7.2% of its stake in Sirius Real Estate for €29.4m, through an accelerated bookbuild.
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It is a neat irony that, following the UK’s vote to leave Europe, the sterling bond market is starting to look more and more European.
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Guarantor: Places for People Homes, Places for People Living +, Cotman Housing Association
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The corporate sterling bond market, mired in Brexit angst for much of the year, has burst back to strength this week as it beat the euro market on pricing and won the attention of international issuers and investors. Ross Lancaster reports.
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Tullett Prebon has extended its land grab in hybrid voice brokerage across trading classes, with a foreign exchange platform launch this week adding to recent manoeuvres in other areas such as rates and credit derivatives.
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Dovish actions taken by the Bank of England last week, particularly its sterling corporate bond buying programme, helped send short dated credit and equity implied volatility near to their post-crisis lows, prompting traders to begin to roll out of short volatility trades and size up potential bumps in September.
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