Banks

Soaring demand and tight spreads lured repeat borrowers as summer dollar bond supply soared with $34bn of new issuance crammed into four days.

As investment bankers got used to working from home in the first half of the year, many more whistleblowing cases were opened by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority. Meanwhile, challenges around monitoring staff and forging a bank’s internal culture have not gone away just because the workforce is outside of the office.

Deutsche Bank has had an impressive run in the European investment grade corporate bond market this year, leaping from sixth to second year-to-date. GlobalCapital spoke to Frazer Ross, Deutsche’s head of investment grade syndicate for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, to find out the reasons behind its success.

Société Générale and Natixis have purged their senior ranks following second-quarter losses and to prepare for strategic revamps, but David Rothnie thinks the future will remain challenging for both.

The Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) broke the silence in the SSA market with a Canadian dollar sustainable development bond. The deal shared the market with a dollar trade from Kommuninvest, with both issuers steering clear of the almost dormant euro market.

Citi has taken market share from other banks in the past year to become one of only four that account for 60% of all secondary market covered bond volume traded on Bloomberg so far this year, thanks to a combination of devoting balance sheet to trading and having the appetite to take risk.

Ke Holdings sealed a $2.12bn IPO on the New York Stock Exchange this week, the largest US listing by a Chinese firm in more than two years, defying the shock caused by US sanctions against one of its largest shareholders, Tencent Holdings. Jonathan Breen reports.

Hong Kong rail operator MTR Corp priced a larger and tighter green bond than expected this week, with investors showing their faith in a company that has been forced to battle protests and the pandemic in the past year. Morgan Davis reports.

S&P has warned there is no smooth way for banks and insurers to direct proceeds from debt capital instruments towards specific green financing objectives. It recommended that these issuers instead focus on making broad commitments through their green subordinated bonds.

Private equity firms EQT Partners and Vaaka Partners have offloaded €118.5m of stock in Musti Group, the Finland-based pet store, in an otherwise barren week for block trades in EMEA.

Chinese delivery company Yunda Holding Co made its debut in the dollar market on Wednesday, raising $500m.

OneConnect Financial Technology Co, a Chinese technology-as-a-service platform, raised $324m this week from a larger than expected follow-on offering of its US-listed stock.