Barclays
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The Republic of Slovenia is once again in the market with a liability management exercise that will enable it to tidy its debt structure by buying back up to $650m of its outstanding dollar bonds, as it continues its bid to consolidate its outstanding dollar debt into one bond maturing 2024. -
Spain’s first trip to the long end of the curve in almost two years met with an overwhelming response, as the sovereign received one of the largest books ever for a 30 year bond.
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Cineworld, the UK cinema operator, has finished its £1.7bn rights issue to finance its reverse takeover of Regal Entertainment in the US, winning a high take-up from its shareholders.
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Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten will reopen the dollar market for SSAs after a US public holiday on Monday — but is very much keeping to a trend set in the currency last week.
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India’s PNB Housing Finance is preparing to make its debut in the offshore rupee bond market and has turned to the International Finance Corp (IFC) to make sure the deal goes off without a hitch.
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Spain has picked banks for its second deal of the year, looking towards the long end of the curve for the first time since May 2016.
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Daimler led three corporate dollar issuers on Thursday as the market stabilised and high grade credits showed their resilience after a stop-start week.
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The Autonomous Community of Madrid this week made a triumphant second visit to the socially responsible investment (SRI) market as it printed a deal double the size of its debut last year. Further issuance from the borrower — in conventional and SRI format — is likely to come soon, although in private placement (PP) format. But there may be further SRI issuance from some of Madrid’s Spanish peers.
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Creval, the Italian bank, has kicked off its fully underwritten €699m rights issue, having announced the price range late on Wednesday evening.
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ANZ raised €750m this week from its first bond aligned with the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs), marking only the second such deal globally.
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The Autonomous Community of Madrid on Tuesday printed its largest ever sustainable bond — and its biggest bond of any kind in three years — with a trade that was double the size of its SRI debut last year. Bankers away from the trade hailed the “excellent” result, with one saying it was “probably as good a result as the issuer could have hoped for”.
