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European commercial paper deals in dollars topped the currency ranking in 2013 at 36%, the first time since 2001, according to Dealogic. Deals in the currency will continue to rise, [...]

US paper and pulp company International Paper has signed a $468m syndicated loan through its Luxembourg subsidiary. It used the facility and about $170m of its cash reserves to repay [...]

Byline: Oliver West Pulp and paper producer Fibria Celulose is looking to become the second Brazilian company in the sector to issue green bonds after mandating five banks to manage [...]

Byline: Lewis McLellan The National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD) is in the final stages of introducing a US commercial paper (US CP) programme, in order to extend its global [...]

Byline: Craig McGlashan The super strong bid for public sector dollar paper shows no signs of letting up, with Sweden this week printing the tightest deal to mid-swaps of 2017 [...]

The US commercial paper market faces the refinancing of $243bn of 90 day commercial paper between January 27 and February 3, as paper sold to the Federal ReserveEs Commercial Paper [...]

Byline: David Bell Two secondary placements of consumer ABS paper could be launched this week, with French consumer loans and UK credit card backed offerings being prepared. Crédit Agricoleâ's â¬578.4m [...]

Byline: Shruti Chaturvedi A subsidiary of Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing has signed loans worth HK$4bn ($515.6m) to refinance debt, including bilateral loans, and for general corporate funding. Lee Kwok [...]

Byline: Victor Jimenez The recent run of leveraged finance deals by companies owned by CVC continues this week as Lecta Group, the coated paper maker, starts a roadshow on Tuesday [...]

Byline: Francesca Young Russia's State Transport Leasing Company printed the first new Russian quasi-sovereign paper for six years on Tuesday, taking advantage of the recent rally in Russia debt to [...]

Byline: Sasha Padbidri The US Department of the Treasury identified in a white paper released on Tuesday the potential trends in marketplace lending that will require ongoing monitoring. The white [...]

Byline: Graham Bippart A European Commission expert group has suggested harmonising the two most significant post-crisis capital requirement frameworks, as well as possibly differentiating capital requirements based on bank business [...]

Byline: David Bell Skipton Building Society has returned to the UK RMBS market after nearly two years, with a new prime deal from its Darrowby shelf hitting the market this [...]

Byline: Jonathan Breen Banks could be in for a boost of demand in the US short term debt market as money market investors, who had anticipated a rate rise on [...]

Byline: Craig McGlashan The UK drew its largest ever book as it printed its biggest syndication in nearly three years on Tuesday Ç' taking care of nearly a quarter of [...]

Temenos, a Genevese vendor of banking software, offered retail investors its fourth Swiss bond on Monday. Credit Suisse priced the Sfr150m 1.75% April 2024 bonds at 180.3bp over mid-swaps, tightened [...]

Byline: Lewis McLellan Bpifrance Financement became this weekÇÖs third French public sector issuer on Thursday, scoring é¼500m with a tap. Leads Barclays, Citi, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley and Nomura priced a [...]

Corporate spreads in the European commercial paper market tightened further this week thanks to excess demand, though market participants say other sectors are also suffering a lack of supply. 'I've [...]

Byline: Rashmi Kumar JapanÇÖs Nippon Paper Industries raised HK$930.7m ($120m) by selling its entire shareholding in Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing on the evening of June 22, in a deal [...]

SECONDARY TRADING In a busy week of secondary trading the market took a dive upon a wide range of established names in the search for yield. 'Traders are hungry for [...]

Byline: Oliver West Bankers and investors see no signs of cooling in Latin American bond markets, as hefty inflows continue to leave technicals firmly in the favour of issuers. In [...]

Byline: Ross Lancaster Israeli-American pharmaceutical company Teva ripped through a severely undersupplied European corporate bond market this week, making savage price cuts on all three tranches of a â¬4bn trade [...]

A GLANCE DOWN the list of Japanese issuers in the overseas debt markets this year reveals most of the usual suspects from the government agency sector, a flurry of often [...]

Byline: Oliver West Energy company Orazul Energy Egenor, the Peruvian arm of Orazul Energía, took advantage of a cash-rich Lat Am bond market and scarcity of Peruvian issuance to sell [...]

Byline: David Bell Non-bank lender Precise has mandated leads for a new £300m RMBS transaction, backed by prime UK buy-to-let properties, despite two legacy BTL deals backed by £11.8bn of [...]

Byline: Nathan Collins Toyota Motor Credit Corp and American Honda became the first auto issuers to tap the corporate market in September this week, appealing to appetite for safe paper [...]

Byline: David Bell Italian, UK and German consumer ABS deals are being readied for launch, despite calls last week that the primary pipeline was running out of steam. A syndicate [...]

Byline: Tom Porter Rabobankâ's latest additional tier one deal, its first under its new structure, has shown the CoCo market is open across dollars and euros after a torrid start [...]

Byline: Shruti Chaturvedi Hong Kong listed company Samson Paper, has wrapped up its 3.5 year fundraising at HK$728m ($93.74m), higher than its launch size of HK$500m. The deal travelled well [...]

A â¬470.2m exchangeable bond from CEZ, the first equity-linked transaction from the Czech Republic, saw a surge of demand from investors hungry for investment grade paper. Over 300 accounts flocked [...]

Byline: Rashmi Kumar The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has put together a draft framework to identify, regulate and supervise its domestic systemically important banks (D-SIBs). Although there are no [...]

The European Commission says efforts to stimulate securitisation markets could be needed to help give a fillip to lending to the regionâs real economy. The Commission has made the comments [...]

WHEN AGENCE FRANCE Tresor on February 3 announced that it was launching an exploratory study into the possibility of issuing a 50 year OAT, it said that the results should [...]

Byline: David Bell Bank of America Merrill Lynchâ's latest Taurus transaction showed that successful CMBS execution is still possible in the European market, despite minimal issuance and tricky economics in [...]

Byline: David Bell The Capital Markets Union project risks becoming a âpaper tigerâ unless faster progress is made on the âsimple, transparent and standardisedâ (STS) securitization framework, said influential Dutch [...]

Byline: David Bell GMAC sold the £300m senior tranche of a £329.6m UK auto ABS deal on Tuesday, retaining the rest of the deal. Leads Bank of America Merrill Lynch, [...]

Byline: David Bell Skipton Building Society priced a £450m UK prime RMBS deal on Monday, and a new UK auto ABS deal is set to be priced tomorrow in a [...]

The European Central Bank could cut its deposit rate to a negative number in the coming months, which will shrink the euro commercial paper market, according to dealers. But not [...]

Byline: Nathan Collins Volkswagen Leasing was the sole issuer to tap the euro market on Monday, brushing off any fears about investor engagement in August by gathering an almost four [...]

Byline: Tessa Wilkie Investors starved of paper from well-funded borrowers and the summer slowdown allowed the State of Berlin to increase a â¬100m 10 year print to â¬250m this week, [...]

Banks found plenty of demand in the European commercial paper market this week with investors warming to unguaranteed issuance after a period of wariness of this type of paper, according [...]

Russian diamond miner Alrosa (Ba3/BB-/BB-) mandated Goldman Sachs, UBS and VTB Capital to arrange a series of fixed income investor meetings in Switzerland that took place yesterday. A dollar-denominated Reg [...]

The European commercial paper market stumbled in 2005, after sure-footedly climbing an upward path since the introduction of the euro in 1999. The year began in the market's usual style, [...]

Charlie Brown: 'Why does Linus hold his blanket like that?' Lucy Van Pelt: 'I'm not sure ... I think maybe it gives him a feeling of security.' (Linus Van Pelt's [...]

Byline: Luka Dimitrov Asian Development Bank (ADB) has a launched a new 10.5 year Kangaroo note on Wednesday, highlighting the demand for high grade names in that market. Asian Development [...]

Byline: Nina Flitman Seadrill, the offshore deepwater drilling company, is set to raise up to $1bn through the issuance of a 2019 convertible bond, which was launched on Tuesday. The [...]

Byline: Virginia Furness Malaysiaâs AmBank is out with guidance for its inaugural senior dollar bond, following investor meetings that wrapped up on Wednesday. AM Investment Bank and ANZ opened guidance for [...]

Byline: Victor Jimenez The European high yield market appeared to have woken up this week with three roadshows and â¬900m on offer â but only one borrower has printed, and [...]

Samson Paper signed its HK$300m 3-1/2 year financing on February 10 in Hong Kong, after increasing the amount from HK$260m. Mandated arrangers and bookrunners China Construction Bank (Hong Kong) and [...]

Byline: Emmanuelle Rathouis US dollar strength, geopolitical tension and a lower oil price have caused volatility in the global financial markets in the last few months, but substantial fiscal surpluses [...]