Italy
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Remo Ruffini, the Italian fashion billionaire, has offloaded €412m of shares in Moncler, the luxury goods company famous for its down jackets, through an accelerated bookbuild on Tuesday night.
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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, March 8. The source for secondary trading levels is ICE Data Services.
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Intesa Sanpaolo saved a couple of basis points with the sale of a new senior bond from its green issuance framework on Tuesday, compared to fair value on a conventional deal. The new issue came as markets remained on edge ahead of the European Central Bank’s next meeting.
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Crédit Agricole Italia became the first Italian bank to issue a green obbligazioni bancarie garantite on Monday and the first in well over a decade to issue an OBG at a single-digit spread over mid-swaps.
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FIG issuers are taking care to announce deals before opening order books this week, as they try and book their places in the market ahead of a tricky meeting for the European Central Bank on Thursday.
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Italy made its long-awaited green bond debut this week, and set new records for the biggest and longest sovereign green bond.
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Italy took orders of over €80bn for its first green BTP on Wednesday to become the latest sovereign to enter the green bond market. Germany was also in market, raising €3bn with its first 15 year deal via auction.
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Market participants will be reassessing the role of deposit guarantee schemes in European Union bank bailouts after this week’s ruling by the European Court of Justice that the 2014 rescue of Banca Tercas should have been upheld as lawful.
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Italy picked the banks to lead its debut green bond on Tuesday after unveiling its sovereign green framework to investors last week.
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Italy published its much anticipated green bond framework on Thursday, ahead of a debut green BTP later in 2021.
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