Deutsche and Bankia reveal polarising market
The supply-starved covered bond market highlighted its increasing credit polarisation this week with both its tightest and widest deals of the year. 2012’s lowest rated covered issuer, Spain’s Bankia, got an inaugural public transaction away at 290bp over mid-swaps despite recent Cédulas downgrades, while rare issuer Deutsche Bank attracted more than €2bn of orders in under an hour for what bankers described as a "cheap Bund" at 22bp over.
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