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Corporate issuers enjoy central bank friendliness

Central bank utterances this week, including a keynote speech by Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, on Tuesday and a Federal Open Market Committee meeting due on Wednesday, have done little to deter corporate bond issuance in Europe this week — in fact, they appear to have encouraged it.

  • By Alex Radford
  • 19 Jun 2019

Despite the Fed meeting on Wednesday afternoon, Dutch-Belgian supermarket group Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize (Baa1/BBB) has announced an expected €500m six year sustainability bond. The deal follows recent sustainability bonds issued by other retailers: Otto of Germany and the Co-op in the UK.

Bookrunners Bank of America Merrill Lynch, BNP ...

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All Corporate Bonds

Rank Lead Manager Amount $m No of issues Share %
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1 JPMorgan 109,590.02 545 5.98%
2 Citi 99,476.56 508 5.43%
3 Bank of America Merrill Lynch 95,931.24 488 5.23%
4 Barclays 84,564.14 361 4.61%
5 Goldman Sachs 72,463.15 353 3.95%

Bookrunners of Euro Denominated Corporate IG Bonds

Rank Lead Manager Amount $m No of issues Share %
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1 Barclays 25,216.98 68 8.07%
2 BNP Paribas 22,728.81 125 7.28%
3 Deutsche Bank 19,476.33 91 6.24%
4 SG Corporate & Investment Banking 18,780.78 83 6.01%
5 Bank of America Merrill Lynch 18,365.62 60 5.88%

Bookrunners of European HY Bonds

Rank Lead Manager Amount €m No of issues Share %
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1 Citi 5,481.64 30 9.16%
2 JPMorgan 4,195.74 34 7.01%
3 Deutsche Bank 4,163.77 26 6.96%
4 Goldman Sachs 4,037.77 30 6.75%
5 Barclays 3,944.19 26 6.59%

Bookrunners of Dollar Denominated HY Bonds

Rank Lead Manager Amount $m No of issues Share %
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1 JPMorgan 21,330.12 176 9.55%
2 Citi 20,413.19 159 9.14%
3 Goldman Sachs 16,673.77 129 7.47%
4 Bank of America Merrill Lynch 15,858.61 138 7.10%
5 Morgan Stanley 14,415.14 99 6.46%

Bookrunners of European Corporate IG Bonds

Rank Lead Manager Amount $m No of issues Share %
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1 BNP Paribas 21,308.48 122 5.93%
2 Barclays 19,922.32 79 5.54%
3 JPMorgan 18,851.59 86 5.24%
4 SG Corporate & Investment Banking 18,623.31 86 5.18%
5 Citi 18,190.86 90 5.06%