Banks
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Nederlandse Waterschapsbank has selected banks for a €500m 15 year no-grow water bond, in what will be its longest ever maturity for a green bond. -
Small cracks started to appear in the euro corporate bond market on Thursday, after a busy month, as companies launched a spate of deals. An already bulging pipeline means there will be little time for the market to catch its breath.
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German Pfandbrief issuers DZ Hyp and Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Girozentrale (Helaba) enjoyed strong receptions for their €1bn Pfandbriefe issued this week. Bankers suggested that the German market had a good chance to perform.
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Lloyds Bank, Virgin Money and Skipton Building Society took advantage of an improvement in market conditions since the European Central Bank’s policy meeting, and the UK Parliament’s efforts to legislate against leaving Europe without a deal, to issue a string of successful covered bonds this week.
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L-Bank issued the first ever floating rate note linked to €STR on Thursday, ahead of the European Central Bank’s publication of the recommended new euro risk-free rate on October 2. While it has been beaten in the race to do the first deal, the European Investment Bank has announced plans for what could be the first benchmark sized transaction in the format.
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Dollar SSA issuers faced huge volatility this week as the US Federal Reserve cut interest rates and unexpectedly pumped billions into the repo market, with two more issuers lining up to test investors’ mettle.
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Thermo Fisher Scientific, the US genetic testing and laboratory equipment company, has mandated banks for a multi-tranche Reverse Yankee bond in euros. It wants to print fresh debt along its curve out to 30 years.
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Former Deutsche Bank DCM head Miles Millard has joined ING as head of global capital markets Leo-Hendrik Greve left the job in September last year, and has now landed at boutique Bowline Capital Partners.
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LBBW joined CaixaBank is raising social bond funding in the euro market this week, but the German lender struggled to build up demand and tighten pricing for its €500m deal.
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Two Canadian issuers revitalised the dollar covered bond market this week as Royal Bank of Canada raised €1.5bn of three year funding on Tuesday at half the cost of its senior funding and at a substantially lower cost than a year ago. The transaction was followed by Fédération des caisses Desjardins du Québec (FCDQ) which opened order books for another three year on Thursday.
