Banks
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Europe’s most prolific corporate bond issuer re-entered the market on Monday for its second multi-tranche deal of the year, and issued €2.75bn, slightly more than at its €2.5bn outing in January. The book for Volkswagen Financial Services’ three tranche issue was somewhat smaller this time, however. -
Total, the French oil company, achieved a flat new issue concession on its €1.5bn hybrid bond on Wednesday, according to bankers away from the deal, as investors swarmed into the book in search of yield.
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Barclays’ chief executive Jes Staley has seized direct control of corporate and investment banking (CIB) again, instigating sweeping changes as he fights to boost returns at the unit and block a shareholder activist’s attack. David Rothnie reports.
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Vodafone launched and priced on Thursday a $2bn hybrid capital issue, to gain some more equity credit in the eyes of the rating agencies. The deal follows Moody’s decision on Monday to give no equity credit to Vodafone’s £3.4bn mandatorily convertible bond, issued on March 5.
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Participants in the financial institutions bond market were bewildered to see Coventry Building Society paying up to issue a new additional tier one and tender for an old one this week. But the transaction gave other issuers a window into how European rules on bank capital may be applied in practice — something that could pave the way for new and more liberal approaches to calling and refinancing AT1s, writes Tyler Davies.
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Rating: Baa3/BBB-/BBB-
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A trio sovereigns went to the MTN market over the past week, including Italy, which issued a yen bond for the first time since 2009. The deal, led by Nomura, was also its first issue in a foreign currency since 2010.
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Romania printed a €3bn triple trancher this week, the country’s largest ever euro deal, with one of the three tranches also being the longest ever euro bond from the country.
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Investment grade loans bankers are pinning more hope on the coming quarter after the slowest start to a year in the past five years.
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A series of modest taps at the long end of the Australian dollar curve at the end of last week suggests that what has been a quiet market for Kangaroo bonds could soon spark into life, according to SSA funding officials.
