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KommuneKredit will hit the road next week to talk up a new green bond, while a fellow Nordic issuer is looking to enter the social bond market — although not for some time yet. -
Sweden’s Lundin Petroleum has slashed 90bp off the margin of its $5bn reserves-based lending facility, as borrowers continue to heap pressure on lenders over pricing.
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The world’s largest salmon producer, Marine Harvest, sold the Nordic fish farming industry’s first bond for five years last week and as the industry scales up sources say a wave of issuance from the sector could be on the way.
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EQT has cleared out its stake in Terveystalo, the Finnish private healthcare company it floated on the Nasdaq Helsinki in October.
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HSBC took home $6bn from a callable bond issuance on Thursday, after Barclays opened the callable market for jumbo Yankee issuers earlier in the week.
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While the euro primary market was running hot for financials this week, four banks also went to the sterling market for £1.625bn of senior funding, mainly concentrating on the shorter end of the curve.
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Swedish lender SEB was looking for sterling funding on Thursday, after a clutch of banks issued bonds in the currency on Wednesday. But amid bonds underperforming in the secondary market, the bank was unable to grow the order book much beyond the deal size of £250m.
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Citigroup and Svenska Handelsbanken were both offering senior bonds in euros on Wednesday, as bankers started to question whether the primary market could continue to support large volumes of new issuance.
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Banks rushed into the primary market with new unsecured funding deals on Tuesday morning, taking advantage of what one lead manager described as the first “sensible backdrop” in more than a week. But attention will be focused on whether or not the new offerings can perform in the secondary market.
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Crédit Agricole has hired a banker from SEB to join its FIG syndicate team in London.
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GlobalCapital revealed the winners of its 2017 Loan Awards at its annual Loans and Leveraged Finance Awards Dinner at Gibson Hall in London on February 7. The full results are below: GlobalCapital congratulates all the winners and nominees.
