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High yields and tight senior/sub spread fuel enthusiasm for issuance among investors and issuers
◆ German utilities firm debuts hybrid bonds weeks after first senior deal ◆ Books shrink as issuer pushes tight ◆ Trade lands inside peers
◆ Swisscom pushes senior/sub spread close to record tights ◆ Tennet Germany lines up debut hybrid ◆ Hybrid volumes run ahead of 2025
◆ Books sticky throughout execution ◆ Debut deal lands tight ◆ Commitment to single-A rating drives first time trade
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Eni, the Italian oil and gas company, got blowout demand for its debut hybrid capital issue on Tuesday, as yield-hungry investors pumped about €14bn of orders into the dual tranche trade. -
A trio of firsts are coming to the high grade corporate bond market this week, with a debut hybrid from Italian oil and gas firm Eni, a green first for French chemicals company Arkema and a postponed entry to the Eurobond market for Danish pharmaceutical firm Lundbeck.
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Experian Finance, a credit scoring company, was out in the sterling bond market on Monday as a slew of euro corporate bond mandates hit screens. But the flurry is unlikely to lift a lacklustre September and a final quarter issuance window stymied by the US election means that analysts expect euro debt volumes to be almost flat on 2019.
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Europe’s high grade corporate market continued to offer plenty of demand for riskier structures this week, with multiple hybrids again taking up screen space.
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Corporate bond investors had another chance to pick up some spread on Tuesday after August had closed with a flurry of hybrids, with crossover trades from French nuclear power company Orano and Italian electricity company Enel.
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Companies piled into the bond market with hybrid capital issues this week to raise €4.95bn between them, as syndicate bankers say that they are encouraging as many borrowers as possible to consider pushing out higher risk trades before raising senior debt.
