Banks

Bond market participants in Argentina say that more issuers from the country could look to pre-empt election-related uncertainty and take advantage of benign fundraising conditions after Pampa Energía followed in YPF’s footsteps with a 10 year deal on Tuesday.

Two German issuers returned to the corporate euro bond market on Tuesday, amid a thirst for risk among investors sparked by last weekend’s G20 meeting.

Austrian agency Asfinag won a big order book on Tuesday, allowing it to price 3bp tighter than guidance, in a 10 year tenor the issuer hasn't accessed since 2009. Municipality Finance and the German federal state of Lower Saxony will add to the euro SSA supply on Wednesday with a 10 year green bond and a seven year benchmark, respectively.

KfW and Bpifrance hit screens with taps of existing debt on Tuesday, with levels so tight that the sovereign, supranational and agency market’s best rated names are finding it trickier to get traction from investors.

Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets, the non-ringfenced arm of Lloyds Banking Group, has made its capital markets debut. The UK bank went private to place short-end paper in both fixed and floating rate formats, ahead of a debut in the public market later this week.

Cembra Money Bank, the Swiss financial services company, struck a Sfr277m ($281m) deal to acquire Cashgate on Monday, a Swiss consumer leasing and credit provider, from Aduno Holdings.

On Tuesday, the European Investment Bank took a near-identical approach to KfW on Monday, as it tapped a bond at the short end in sterling, and found similarly strong levels of demand, allowing it to issue £150m more than its planned minimum target.

The City of London Corporation, via its endowment fund The City’s Cash, has held its first roadshow for its inaugural US private placement notes. The funds will be partly used to finance the consolidation of the Billingsgate, Smithfield and Spitalfields wholesale food markets at a new site in Dagenham, Essex.

Belgium’s Cofinimmo has amended and restated its revolving credit facility, with the real estate investment company ramping up the size of its bank line to €400m.

US-based energy trading firm Castleton Commodities International has signed $2.775bn of loan facilities, with European banks making up a large part of the group.

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) has mandated leads for its first euro covered bond since January 2018.

The Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait has set pricing for its five year bond.