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Utilities put ESG back centre stage in MTN market
SSAs add cross-currency depth in private placements
◆ Issuer's first unsecured bond since March 2021 ◆ Tight pricing for rare name in the asset class as ...◆ ... 'everybody wants to grab every piece of paper they can get'
H&M roars back in euros with negative premium on €500m deal
◆ Fashion retailer's first bond since 2023 ◆ Book peaks at €3.6bn ◆ VIA Outlets brings €500m green trade
◆ Issuer's first unsecured bond since March 2021 ◆ Tight pricing for rare name in the asset class as ...◆ ... 'everybody wants to grab every piece of paper they can get'
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◆ Novel deal first of a kind from a non-SSA issuer ◆ Delivers 'political message' in readiness for defence financing ◆ Bankers debate whether issuer paid 'generous' concession -
Headline risk ‘doesn’t tamper with the appetite for SSA products’ at the moment
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◆ Deal is first since French PM called confidence vote ◆ Some concession left on top of wider secondary levels ◆ Bankers call French covered paper 'attractive'
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◆ Spanish borrower brings another green print to euros ◆ Peak orders more than three times deal size ◆ Tight spreads persist for IG corporates
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Markus Stix explains the sovereign's approach to recent euro syndication
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◆ Deal the first of its kind from a bank to be explicitly earmarked for defence financing ◆ External review similar to green bonds ◆ Five year senior preferred offering planned
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International Court of Justice ruling clarifies World Bank Group's obligations
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Parliament is deadlocked on changes to CSRD, while simplifying ESRS moves ahead
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◆ Some investors pass over ESG but other factors prove a lure ◆ Orderbook more than three times deal size at peak ◆ Attrition as spread tightened
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Mid-cap equity-linked issuance to grow
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Canadian banks have high fossil fuel financing and are heavily used as repo collateral
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High emitters' bonds to be assigned lower value as collateral
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MDBs see financing regions and cities as a crucial growth area, since they handle much of social development but lack access to capital
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Grandiose construction plans are having to be scaled back as Saudi borrowing rises, but the main point is social progress
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Trump administration is on a spree of buying stakes in tech and minerals companies. Market participants wonder whether this is a grand strategy or desperation
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Insurance leaders warn society must get to grips with extreme weather perils and plan for how to cope with the costs
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Access to knowledge and expertise should become more seamless
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Cheap panels from China help expansion, often by private citizens
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Global regulators warn failure to align stablecoin rules could destabilise markets as product heads for $2tr by 2028
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US financial support is manna for President Milei but it creates ‘bizarre’ governance and sidelines the IMF
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Massive military spending has kept GDP high. But years of costly conflict are finally taking their toll, with Russia facing a nasty mix of high prices, stagnant lending, plummeting growth and corporates fleeing for safer havens in Central Asia
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Conditions attractive for convertible issuers to refinance
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Several European IPOs are running despite US attacks on Iran
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European IPOs expected next month
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Sponsored by CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean
CAF gearing up to transform regional development
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Sponsored by Emirates NBD Capital
Emirates NBD Capital: An unrivalled conduit for Middle East liquidity
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Sponsored by Instituto de Crédito Oficial
ICO: a benchmark issuer in the European sustainable bonds market
