BMO Capital Markets
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Nyrstar, the Belgian zinc smelting company, on Friday priced a single-B rated €400m high yield bond, and has launched a tender offer to buy back a €120m 2018 convertible bond. -
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Swedish Export Credit Corporation on Thursday added another cracking deal to a super strong week for dollar issuance, as FMS Wertmanagement lined up to take benchmark supply in the currency into Friday.
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The superlatives “fantastic”, “surprising to the upside all the time” and “huge tightening” were being thrown around about the public sector dollar market this week — the only missing ingredient appears to be supply.
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Nederlandse Waterschapsbank on Thursday brought the solitary SSA dollar deal of the week, taking advantage of “fantastic” conditions to raise $1bn of five year cash.
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Nederlandse Waterschapsbank is set to bring the five year part of the dollar curve back to life for the first time in three weeks, after mandating banks for a March 2022 Reg S/144A deal on Wednesday.
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The prospect of a far-right leader becoming president of France rocked government bond markets this week. It led to a rare pulled French agency deal and will cause the country’s banks problems with their own huge funding needs. But as other issuers in eurozone countries facing elections showed, the picture of the risks ahead is complicated. Craig McGlashan reports.
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Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten showed that investors in its dollar bonds are not overly concerned about an upcoming Dutch general election, as it priced a bond on Wednesday that was just $250m short of its record size in the currency. More public sector dollar supply is set for Thursday, after Asian Development Bank hired banks for a five year global benchmark.
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Two public sector borrowers had very contrasting fortunes with no-grow three year dollar bond issues on a volatile Tuesday.
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