Banks
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Natixis has launched a report on how issuers and investors can use the UN’s sustainable development goals, discussing topics such as the importance of location and how firms record their contribution. -
Public sector borrowers snapped up cut price deals in the private markets this week, helping to quell trades in the benchmark sector.
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Banca Carige has shaken up its management team and is preparing to return to the European Central Bank with a new plan for keeping its capital ratios in check. But the troubled Italian lender is going to have its work cut out in accessing the debt or equity markets before the end of the year, with a whole host of its peers waiting to do the same, write Tyler Davies and Sam Kerr.
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A shift in the euro/dollar basis swap means more euro funders could look at dollars, according to SSA bankers. Upcoming Asian holidays are likely to jumbo deals, but there could be room for smaller, cheaper names — with one of those issuers getting a rampant reception this week.
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Eutelsat, the French satellite operator, overcame some strong negative sentiment around its sector to increase its latest corporate bond issue. This was not the first time the company had overcome a difficult environment to get a deal done.
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US healthcare company Abbott Laboratories debuted in the European corporate bond market on Monday, selling a €3.42bn triple-tranche deal. The proceeds of the jumbo deal were to repay the issuer’s outstanding deals in dollars.
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Corporate dollar bond issuance ended a bumper month with a whimper as borrowers fought shy either side of the Fed’s September meeting.
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When UK telecoms company Vodafone announced in May that it had agreed to buy some of US rival Liberty Global’s European operations, it said it would use existing cash, €3bn of mandatorily convertible bonds and new debt, including hybrid bonds to fund the €18.4bn acquisition. On Wednesday, Vodafone sold the hybrid bonds, using four different tenors in three currencies. Nigel Owen reports.
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The lengthy complaint about HSBC management drafted, purportedly, by investment bankers at the firm must be taken seriously and investigated, if its new chief executive John Flint wants to win the confidence of the rest of the staff and shareholders, argues Jon Hay in a GlobalCapital View.
