Banks
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European banks are set to follow sovereign and supranational institutions and begin issuing senior bonds dedicated to fighting Covid-19 under existing ESG frameworks. -
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Public sector borrowers piled into dollars across the curve this week, with every issuer finding plenty of demand. But it was trades from Finland and Cades which stood out with aggressive price tightening and chunky order books as they made their long-awaited returns to the currency.
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The Canton of Geneva took its 2020 funding up to almost Sfr1.2bn ($1.2bn) this week with a triple tranche deal — the most it has funded in a single year since 2013, according to Dealogic. Elsewhere, an attractive basis for dollar funders led a pair of rare issuers to return to the market.
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French covered bond issuer Compagnie de Financement Foncier (CFF) ventured into unexplored territory at the end of last week to print the longest ever covered bond.
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The coronavirus pandemic will test the complex relationship between bank loans and the fabled ancillary business supposed to make it all worthwhile. Some banks have provided heaps of extra cash for European clients to keep them alive and it has changed the shape of the loan market, with some banks ramping up market share. But will companies return the love when the time comes?
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Europe’s high grade corporate bond market offered investors an assortment of trades this week, with some defensive issuers managing to print inside fair value, while some of the more esoteric picks had to pay up.
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While the US high yield market has delivered a deluge of secured rescue bonds to bail out airlines, cruise lines, car rental firms, hotels and other "zero revenue" virus casualties, European high yield has stayed sedate, cautious, and stuck to the safest sectors. Can the European bond market rise to rescue financing?
