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Following last week’s ECB and Fed decisions, and with Covid-19 and inflation uncertainty only increasing into the new year, financial issuers will have to navigate an even busier January primary market than expected amid ...

2022 set for bumper, bumpy reopening as inflation, Covid complicate macro outlook

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Well-received remarks from Fed chair Jerome Powell set the stage for records to fall in the financial institutions space this week, as investors took their foot off the brake, allowing issuers from Allianz to CaixaBank to ...

AIA, Allianz put down markers as coupon records fall on back of Powell taper stance

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UniCredit successfully rounded off the first half the year in European bank capital on 30 June, issuing a €750m perpetual non-call seven Additional Tier 1 amid a pre-summer flurry of supply, with issuers still able to tap ...

UniCredit AT1 wraps up H1 with market finely poised

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Attractive opportunities for European banks in the US dollar market are expected to persist into the second half of the year, given the anticipated sharp drop-off in overall investment grade supply that is expected to ...

Yankee drumbeat to persist on supply, XCCY levels

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Macif sold the first ever transaction to include RT1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 tranches on 14 June, a €1.75bn three-tranche deal that attracted some €12.1bn of demand from more than 400 accounts, as the insurer successfully ...

Macif well positioned after €1.75bn M&A hat-trick

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Green, social and sustainability (GSS) bond issuance has trebled its share of key bank products in the first half of 2021, as banks increasingly seek to satisfy investors by reinforcing their ESG credentials and to leverage ...

SNP, Tier 2 lead H1 green and social bank bloom

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Crédit Agricole SA (CASA) achieved a participation rate of around 80% in a novel one-for-one exchange offer for holders of a £500m (€582m) Additional Tier 1 in June, with the majority of investors keen to switch from a ...

CASA £500m AT1 exchange beats expectations

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Groupama sold its inaugural green bond on 30 June, a €500m seven year Tier 3 transaction whose sustainable nature helped the French insurer achieve tight pricing, while Generali built on its prior green issuance with a ...

Groupama goes green in T3, Generali adds to ESG

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Crédit Agricole SA (CASA) on 20 May launched a novel one-for-one exchange offer for holders of its £500m (€582m) perpetual non-call June 2026 grandfathered Additional Tier 1 instrument, seeking to replace it with a fully ...

Crédit Agricole £500m AT1 exchange tackles Libor, CRR issues

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