Rating: Baa1/BBB+/BBB
Amount: €750m of green paper
Maturity: 4 December 2024
Issue/reoffer price: 99.966
Coupon: 0.75%
Spread at reoffer: mid-swaps plus 100bp
Launched: Wednesday, November 27
Payment date: December 4
Joint books: Banca IMI, Crédit Agricole, ING, Société Générale
Borrower’s comment:
More than 70% of the final investors were specialised green funds, so it was really an outstanding result for us. The demand from green asset managers was so strong that we were actually about to price the deal 2bp through our secondary curve. We did not set out to save this money, but we found ourselves in that position because of the interest in the deal.
We could have raised more money considering the size of the order book, but we decided to keep some ammunition for the next trade.
Distribution by investor type
Asset managers 75%
Banks/private banks 10%
Public sector 10%
Insurers/retirement funds 4%
Geographical distribution
UK/Ireland 23%
Germany/Austria 18%
France 17%
Italy 13%
Benelux 11%
Switzerland 6%
Spain/Portugal 5%
Denmark/Norway/Sweden 5%
Market appraisal:
“…it had a huge book of nearly €4bn at one point, which is very impressive for this late stage in the year.”
“…the bond pays about 10bp less than the last issue, placed last November 12. Intesa issued €6.5bn of new paper, of which €5.5bn was senior preferred. It will not issue senior non-preferred during 2019.”