Banks
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The International Finance Corp (IFC) hit screens this week with its first Canadian dollar green bond. The C$750m ($567m) print was the issuer’s largest ever in the currency, as well as the tightest an international SSA issuer has printed against the Canadian Mortgage Bond (CMB) curve, a large and liquid Canadian dollar benchmark. -
The frenzy of investment grade corporate bond issuance in Europe intensified on Thursday, when eight companies came to market, issuing a total of €6.6bn of paper in euros. That brought the total for the first four days of this week to over €20bn. Despite the heavy supply, issuers have found sufficient demand to support their notes.
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Emerging market issuers are moving to print in the bond markets as investors’ desperation for positive yield hits fever pitch. With some borrowers looking to refinance maturities falling due in 2020 and 2021, a pivot towards bonds from loans, and Gulf Cooperation Council sovereigns rumoured to be making moves, some bankers say this year could challenge the record for annual CEEMEA volume.
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Two Russian steel companies have announced mandates and roadshows this week and look set to become the first corporates from the country to test the bond market since the latest round of US sanctions on their country in early August.
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Credit Suisse has recruited a banker from Deutsche Bank to join its equity capital markets solutions origination team in Paris.
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The European Investment Bank failed to reach full subscription for a tap of its May 2026 Sustainable Awareness Bond that was priced with a yield of minus 0.542%.
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The dollar SSA market saw a clear schism this week between the maturities investors favour, with shorter end trades tightening pricing while longer maturity deals were forced to print in line with initial price thoughts.
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Volumes in other syndicated loan markets may be down, but bankers in the Schuldschein market have rather more to crow about. Derided though it may be for being antique and parochial, it has nonetheless managed to attract an impressive number of debut entrants this year and is set to break the record volumes of 2017.
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Despite no deals coming on Thursday, improving conditions could see other FIG borrowers join CaixaBank, ANZ New Zealand and ASB Finance with senior bonds as soon as Friday, bankers believe..
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Peter Kerckhoffs will join Moelis & Company in December to advise clients in the Netherlands and across Europe. JP Morgan has replaced him as senior country officer for that country with Cassander Verwey.
