Barclays
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Société de Financement Local (SFIL) has picked banks to sell its first benchmark in euros this year. -
Japan Bank of International Co-operation and the Municipal Finance Authority of British Columbia gave investors more ways to invest their stacks of dollars on Thursday, though syndicate bankers say the pent up demand for bonds in the currency is still far from satiated.
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Nordic Investment Bank funding officials considered printing its $1bn bond this week inside its curve before deciding against the ruse in order to support secondary trading, with Japan Bank of International Co-operation next in line to test the vast demand for five year dollar bonds.
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Trade war concerns and US title insurer Fidelity National Information Service’s eight tranche €6.44bn equivalent deal crowded out issuers from the corporate euro investment grade market on Tuesday, bankers and investors said. But several are hopeful that deal flow could pick up later in the week.
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The World Bank sold its first 10 year euro benchmark since 2009 on Tuesday, with the supranational going slightly through its own curve on its return, according to onlooking SSA bankers.
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The Nordic Investment Bank’s $1bn no-grow five year passed easily through the market on Tuesday. Syndicate bankers away from the trade said the market is so receptive that any top tier dollar trade at that maturity is going to succeed.
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Rhian-Mari Thomas has left her role as global head of green banking at Barclays to become the first chief executive officer of the Green Finance Institute. It is thought two bankers have been lined up to manage the ESG banking and capital markets division at Barclays.
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Baxter International, the US medical equipment company, chose the euro market on Friday for its first bond issue of any kind for two years. The €1.5bn deal followed another euro issue in 2017. Not since 2016 has Baxter issued in dollars.
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Dollars burst into life on Monday with Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) and FMO opening books, as bankers away from the deals point to the ‘EIB effect’ in making the market too hot to resist.
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Ken Brown, until last year head of global finance for EMEA at Nomura, has joined Barclays as chairman of its equity capital markets business in Europe and the Middle East.
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There has been no covered message sent on the IPO of Finablr, the financial holding company which owns Travelex, though the deal is set to close today, Monday May 13. The banks are still working hard to close the book on schedule.
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