Latest hybrid corporate bonds news

• Oversubscription justifies Elia confidence with hybrid

  

  The euro senior corporate market slowed right down over the summer, but the actual break in issuance was for barely two weeks. For hybrid deals, however, it was nearly seven weeks from the last new issue to Belgian electricity grid operator Elia’s deal this week.

  • 30 Aug 2018

• Otto finds demand remains strong for unrated hybrid

  

  Unrated German mail order retailer Otto Group found plenty of demand for its debut hybrid bond on Tuesday. Order books were more than twice oversubscribed following a week-long roadshow.

  • 10 Jul 2018

• Sole-led short dated FRNs the order of the day

  

  The corporate bond market started the week slowly with a pair of well rated German corporates selling two year floating rate notes on Monday. Both had just a sole lead manager.

  • 09 Jul 2018

• Volkswagen drives away with largest hybrid of 2018

  

  Volkswagen used the slipstream of the upbeat corporate bond market this week to print the largest corporate hybrid bond deal of the year to date. The dual tranche offering garnered €8bn of demand.

  • 21 Jun 2018

• IG corporate floodgates open following Bayer

  

  Bayer’s €5bn four-tranche corporate bond offering on Tuesday not only cleared the way for other issuers to approach the market, but the €22.5bn of demand gave four issuers the confidence to sell a variety of deals in Europe on Wednesday. €3.5bn was issued in the euro market and £1bn in sterling.

  • 20 Jun 2018

• Hybrid market reopens with sweet OMV deal

  

  Austrian oil and gas company OMV sold the first corporate hybrid deal in four weeks on Tuesday when it sold a €500m perpetual bond with a non-call six year structure which was more than three times subscribed.

  • 12 Jun 2018

• Enel refinances €1.25bn of hybrids inside CFO’s target as demand remains high

  

  Italian energy company Enel sold €1.25bn of new hybrid bonds this week to help fund the repurchase of its hybrids with 2019 and 2020 call dates.

  • 17 May 2018

• Enel refinances €1.25bn of hybrids inside CFO’s target

  

  On Tuesday, Italian energy company Enel sold €1.25bn of new hybrid bonds to help fund the repurchase of its hybrids with 2019 and 2020 call dates. The buyback was announced after the firm’s chief financial officer announced that the company would refinance up to €3.5bn of hybrids at a cost of about 3.5%.

  • 15 May 2018

• Vodafone reboots equity-neutral mando for Liberty Global buy

  

  Vodafone, the UK-based telecoms group, is planning a raft of capital market activity to finance its €18.4bn acquisition of Liberty Global’s cable assets in Germany, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania, including a second try of the ground-breaking mandatorily convertible bonds it issued in 2016.

  • 09 May 2018

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