Commerzbank
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Europe’s high grade bond investors showed they are still willing to swallow ultra-thin spreads this week, when Dutch leasing company LeasePlan priced a green bond well inside fair value and Deutsche Boerse won ample demand for a thinly priced €1bn deal. -
H&M, the Swedish clothing retail company, has received blowout demand for its debut bond, as the “perfect storm” of ESG criteria and European Central Bank rule changes to allow it to buy sustainability-linked bonds saw the order book bulge to almost 11 times subscribed at guidance.
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Hamburger Hochbahn, the city public transport operator, made its bond market debut on Wednesday, slotting into the market neatly with a €500m 10 year green bond and a €3bn order book.
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Europe’s high grade bond investors showed they are still willing to swallow ultra-thin spreads on Monday, when Dutch leasing company LeasePlan priced a green bond well inside fair value and Deutsche Boerse won ample demand for a thinly priced €1bn deal.
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Hennes & Mauritz, the Swedish clothing retailer, has chosen to issue its first ever bond in the novel sustainability-linked format.
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Hamburger Hochbahn, a government owned public transport operator in Hamburg, is set to make its bond market debut this week, launching itself as a regular bond issuer.
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Deutsche Kreditbank (DKB) has broken the zero yield barrier with its latest deal, a €500m five year green senior preferred bond issued on Monday.
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SpareBank 1 SMN’s second green bond, priced on Thursday, is set to spark a flurry of similar green deals as issuers try and take advantage of the demand on offer for labelled debt — even at near-term tights.
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Norway’s Sparebank 1 SMN is set to return with its second green bond in the coming days, becoming the third Nordic issuer to tap the public market this year.
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Banks that mostly missed out on last year's trading and origination windfall would find it difficult to make up for lost time by leaning into investment banking; that ship has probably already sailed.
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Michael Spitz, the CEO of Main Incubator, Commerzbank’s research and development arm, is leaving the bank.
