BNP Paribas
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Europe’s high grade corporate bond market had a distinctly Spanish flavour on Tuesday as Cellnex and Merlin Properties issued. Some analysts predict that the healthy earnings season might mean a 15% rise in bond issuance from the European market. -
Bank borrowers returned to a stronger euro bond market on Tuesday, but deal arrangers warned of lingering concern over rates and inflation as KBC Group struggled to draw a crowd for a long-dated offering.
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Europe’s high grade corporate bond market began this shortened week for issuance with an ESG focus, as Australian engineering company Worley mandated for its debut sustainability-linked bond and UK housing association Notting Hill Genesis began marketing a sustainability deal.
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BNP Paribas has made two appointments to its global markets team in Asia Pacific.
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Mondadori Group, the Italian book and magazine publisher, has signed €450m of loans from four banks, with the borrower slashing 25bp off the margin as competition to lend to mid-caps soars in Europe.
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Sustainable bond issuance from central and eastern Europe is set to rise as issuers face growing pressure from investors to show they are embarking on the transition to a lower carbon economy, even if governments in the region are still dragging their feet, writes Jon Hay.
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Europe’s high grade corporate bond issuers had a tough week in the primary market after inflation fears sent investors fleeing risk.
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Muenchener Hypothekenbank (MunHyp) harnessed the growing demand for environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) paper in the Swiss market to land a tap 7bp through the bid side this week. Elsewhere, Toyota ended a 12 year absence from the Swiss franc market to sell the currency’s first automobile deal of the year.
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Ryanair, the Irish budget airline, landed a far more solid bond issue this week than shopping centre operator Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) had a day earlier, in an early indication of what the bond market might look like as the worst-hit sectors recover from the coronavirus pandemic.
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Europe’s high grade corporate bond issuers had a second tough day running on Thursday, as secondary spreads inched wider and investors proved lukewarm to new issuance.
