Banks
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MasterCard ventured into volatile markets on Tuesday to print its first bond since February 2018, but investors paid the price as spreads widened. -
To believe their PR, banks are now paragons of clean, sustainable economic development.
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US utilities continued to dominate dollar corporate bond issuance this week, as defensive names piled into the market before trade tensions slammed the brakes on supply on Wednesday. But issuers fought back on Thursday.
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Buyers of credit default swap protection on bonds issued by Rallye, the holding company of French supermarket chain Casino, will find out on Friday how their positions might be settled, reports Owen Sanderson.
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The Russian sovereign could soon issue its next Eurobond, with both euros and dollars on the table. But if it does launch a deal, the move will be as much financing as it will be a political play to help defend the country from more US sanctions. Francesca Young reports.
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A quartet of public sector borrowers placed paper in the Australian dollar market this week. Two European SSAs priced sustainable and climate awareness bonds: the European Investment Bank priced its third climate awareness Kangaroo on Tuesday, while Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten brought its sustainability bond programme back to the Aussie market on Wednesday. Meanwhile, a pair of agencies raised funding in Australian dollars on Thursday: Export Development Canada and Eurofima both tapped Kangaroos.
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A rough day for the corporate bond market on Wednesday did not bother Illinois Tool Works, which pressed ahead with its three tranche euro bond issue anyway. Focused on the yields, it did not mind paying higher spreads. Bankers said this was typical of the continuing wave of Reverse Yankee issuers.
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Agence Française de Développement (AFD) struck a lonely figure in dollars this week with a $650m two year floating rate note on Wednesday, though syndicate bankers said that several borrowers are lining up to pull the trigger on trades in the first week of June.
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Bayport, the Mauritius-based microfinance company, issued the first African ESG bond outside the supranational sector, printing a $260m three year at 11.5% on Wednesday, and obtaining a social bond second opinion from Sustainalytics, at the suggestion of arranger DNB Markets.
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The City of London Corporation, via its endowment fund ‘The City’s Cash’, is set to enter the US private placement (PP) market for the first time. 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.
