Barclays
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Assicurazioni Generali and Uniqa Insurance are each looking at selling tier two capital from their green bond frameworks, using a quieter period in the new issue markets to explore more complicated and multi-faceted transactions. -
Chinese property companies Times China Holdings and Golden Wheel Tiandi Holdings Co took a combined $470m from the bond market on Monday.
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Europe’s high grade bond market provided some mixed indications of sentiment on Monday with the deals for Takeda and SEE seeing notable differences in demand, leaving syndicate bankers trying to work out what this means for what is expected to be a busy week of issuance.
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DirectBooks, which plans to bring a new issuance platform for bond markets, has not ruled out the possibility of a partnership with other providers.
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Interdealer broker TP ICAP has hired Holden Sibley, formerly of Barclays, to lead FX Hub, its FX platform.
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Worldline, the French payments company, received a warm reception from bond investors on Tuesday, setting aside any concerns that the scandal at German competitor Wirecard would sully sentiment towards the sector.
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Bank bond spreads widened further on Thursday amid growing numbers of infections in Europe and the US. Deal arrangers say that issuers will need to be more careful about choosing the right issuance window as markets remain choppy.
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The Black Lives Matter protests have propelled discussions about ethnic diversity in the UK’s financial sector, and companies are likely to face more pressure from employees, investors and the government.
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Austria returned to the 100 year part of the curve — a tenor it has made its own — receiving its strongest ever order book for the maturity.
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Royal Bank of Scotland and ING were set on Wednesday to add to a recent run of dollar bond issuance from European banks, with some issuers having clocked up huge savings in the currency versus what their home markets can offer.
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The second slice of the ThyssenKrupp Elevator financing hit the market on Wednesday, with €4bn of bonds announced across secured and unsecured tranches in dollars and euros, joining the €3bn of loans earlier this week as part of the package to fund Europe’s largest LBO in a decade.
