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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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  • 13 Jul 2019
1 JPMorgan 76,006.00 390 5.64%
2 Citi 69,584.84 372 5.16%
3 Bank of America Merrill Lynch 68,674.92 369 5.10%
4 Barclays 60,739.02 265 4.51%
5 Goldman Sachs 51,591.79 253 3.83%

Bookrunners of Euro Denominated Corporate IG Bonds

Rank Lead Manager Amount $m No of issues Share %
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1 Barclays 20,165.66 52 8.72%
2 BNP Paribas 15,735.82 89 6.81%
3 SG Corporate & Investment Banking 14,134.52 61 6.12%
4 Bank of America Merrill Lynch 14,105.99 45 6.10%
5 Deutsche Bank 13,105.24 66 5.67%

Bookrunners of European HY Bonds

Rank Lead Manager Amount €m No of issues Share %
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1 Deutsche Bank 2,970.40 18 7.58%
2 Citi 2,783.23 20 7.10%
3 BNP Paribas 2,674.33 25 6.82%
4 JPMorgan 2,602.43 20 6.64%
5 Goldman Sachs 2,523.29 20 6.44%

Bookrunners of Dollar Denominated HY Bonds

Rank Lead Manager Amount $m No of issues Share %
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1 JPMorgan 16,238.30 131 10.01%
2 Citi 14,667.10 123 9.04%
3 Bank of America Merrill Lynch 12,173.13 103 7.51%
4 Goldman Sachs 11,917.27 92 7.35%
5 Morgan Stanley 9,465.81 73 5.84%

Bookrunners of European Corporate IG Bonds

Rank Lead Manager Amount $m No of issues Share %
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  • Last updated
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1 BNP Paribas 15,424.27 88 5.84%
2 SG Corporate & Investment Banking 13,698.52 64 5.19%
3 Barclays 13,569.09 57 5.14%
4 JPMorgan 13,358.35 58 5.06%
5 Citi 13,042.23 59 4.94%