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Life science, utilities and industrials dominate supply after big tech's big splurge
Fresh issuance expected to keep new issue premiums elevated
◆ Energy pair bring three tranches ◆ Sub-100bp senior/hybrid spreads secured ◆ Single digit concessions offered
◆ Deal attracts highest bid-to-cover ratio of the year so far ◆ Extensive marketing helps fuel demand ◆ Pinpointing fair value tricky
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Swedish airline SAS needs Skr12.5bn (€1.2bn) of new funding to get through the coronavirus pandemic. The Swedish and Danish governments have pledged billions more to support it, on top of the revolving credit facility guarantees granted last month, but want “burden sharing” from financial stakeholders in SAS, including holders of its conventional and hybrid bonds. -
Europe’s corporate bond secondary market widened on Monday, amid a far sharper sell-off in equities, and bankers say a bump in cases of coronavirus in the US and China will dampen new issuance.
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Hong Kong power generator Castle Peak Power Co began marketing an energy transition bond on Monday morning, marking just the second transition bond to be sold in Asia.
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Thai Oil Public Co managed to raise $1bn from a dual-tranche bond by the ‘skin of its teeth’ on Thursday, tightening price guidance twice during bookbuilding to find the right groups of investors.
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Europe's corporate bond investors are clamouring for issuers to print higher risk bonds with borrowers proving happy to oblige, as money pumped into the market by the European Central Bank crushes spreads on top-rated, short and medium-dated debt ever tighter, and despite a clear display of pessimism from the US Federal Reserve on Wednesday. Mike Turner reports.
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Private debt markets in Europe have lost their sheen in the past few months. Having grown into attractive alternatives for companies looking to diversify from public and bank markets, the Schuldschein and US private placement markets were left by the wayside during the pandemic as borrowers went for quick cash instead.
