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◆ Peak demand tops €3.25bn ◆ Deal lands close to fair value ◆ Credit has improved in recent months
◆ Italian issuer pairs two sustainable formats ◆ Trade hits size targets ◆ Tight price tests investors' limits
◆ Yield hunters send Orange's book ballooning ◆ Deal lands through fair value ◆ Corporate hybrid supply doubles year-on-year
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The sell-off in the US Treasury and equity markets intensified this week as hopes rose of faster economic growth which could lead the Federal Reserve to taper quantitative easing. But that did not stop Japanese telecoms company Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp raising $8bn with its first dollar bond issue for nine years, amid a stampede for cheap funding. -
Look at any bank’s website or hear its CEO speak and you will get a torrent of virtuous words about climate change, sustainability and supporting clients on their journeys to net zero. The same goes for big investors, from BlackRock down, but the windows of their ivory towers are misted up with all the hot air being spouted.
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Dyal Capital, the US private equity firm that specialises in buying minority equity stakes in private equity and hedge fund managers, has employed a financing method — private placements securitized on fund cashflows — rarely seen before in its industry, writes Silas Brown.
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Non-European names hit the euro market this week with a trio of US companies and Japan’s Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp (NTT) raising debt. But syndicate bankers say rising US rates are still way off the sweet spot that would make the euro market irresistible for all Reverse Yankee issuers.
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EasyJet, the UK budget airline, avoided any turbulence on its return to the bond market on Wednesday, managing to land a €1.2bn deal with no new issue premium that was almost five times oversubscribed.
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High yield market darling Ardagh has joined in with the SPAC fever sweeping capital markets, announcing on Tuesday the merger of its drinks can business with a SPAC sponsored by billionaire Alec Gores. The combined business wasted no time in launching the debt finance for the deal, with a $2.3bn-equivalent four tranche green bond following on Thursday.
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