UniCredit
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Banca Farmafactoring, an Italian financial institution with a specialism in factoring services, is preparing its first rated offering of debt in the capital markets after spying an opportunity to take advantage of ‘favourable’ conditions for issuance.
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CK Hutchison, the Hong Kong conglomerate, took more than €10bn of orders on Tuesday for a six-tranche bond in euros and sterling as it opted not to squeeze the pricing as much as other recent deals.
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Europe's high grade corporate bond new issue market has opened the week smartly, with almost €2bn of debt raised, as borrowers nip into the market before earnings blackouts interrupt new issuance.
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Enel has followed up its ground-breaking sustainability-linked bond, issued in early September, by signing its first revolving credit line with a similar format. The Italian electricity and gas company is doubling down on its commitment to increasing its renewable generation capacity by the end of 2021.
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Raiffeisenlandesbank Niederösterreich-Wien (RLB Noe Wien) is looking to raise new senior unsecured funding, as bankers begin predicting a quieter period for supply in the euro market.
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Banco Santander hit screens this week to sell its first green bond. The deal attracted orders more than five times its €1bn size.
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Commerzbank has come through a period of intense scrutiny with a no-nonsense strategy that reflects its culture. A dash of investment banking ambition is thrown in, writes David Rothnie.
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The financial institutions bond market has absorbed an enormous volume of supply over the past month, putting a strain on trading levels for outstanding securities. FIG bankers nonetheless expect that spreads could start to tighten once more in the coming weeks, amid a calmer flow of new issuance.
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Allied Irish Banks was met with a strong response for an additional tier one (AT1) in the euro market on Wednesday, just a month after its national peer Bank of Ireland had to pull a subordinated bond amid fears about the impact of the UK’s departure from the EU.
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Swedbank and UniCredit got away with paying small new issue premiums for senior bonds this week, after utilising an extremely favourable backdrop for issuers in the euro market.
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Oesterreichische Kontrollbank hit screens on Tuesday with its first ever sustainability bond, raising €500m with an eight year benchmark.