Slow bookbuilds for core covered issuers
Thursday’s suite of covered bond issues from Australia and Switzerland underscored a growing impression among bankers that pricing core transactions is taking more forethought and effort. Whereas deals were invariably easy to price last year, demand seems to have become more finite. Books are taking longer to build as investors need more cajoling to meet issuers’ funding targets, in stark contrast to peripheral credits.
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