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◆ Smaller trades populate market after roaring week ◆ Air France KLM keeps hybrid momentum going ◆ Cencora and Icade bring no-grow bonds
◆ Transdev debuts among some big trades ◆ Abertis looks to pay zero premium on hybrid ◆ Heidelberg Cement pays low concession after big rally in its debt
◆ Demand solid across seniorities ◆ Hybrid regular Veolia moves into green structure◆ Swisscom shows investors also looking for thinly priced debt
Up to €10bn expected from across the ratings spectrum, but long maturities looking tricky
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A lacklustre year for equity capital markets suddenly grew more interesting on Monday, when Bayer announced the details of a $62bn bid for Monsanto. It got still more interesting on Tuesday, when the US agribusiness group rejected the offer as “incomplete and financially inadequate”.
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Monsanto has rejected Bayer’s all-cash bid of a $62bn enterprise value as “incomplete and financially inadequate”, but left the door open to an improved offer.
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Bayer could be preparing to issue one of the five biggest rights issues ever, and the largest by a non-bank company, as part of the financing for its $62bn bid for Monsanto, the US agricultural chemicals and bio-engineering business. -
Idiosyncratic risk in the European corporate hybrid bond sector has caused new issuance to stall and credit spreads to rise.
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The Singapore dollar bond market has been dominated by financial and corporate subordinated debt in recent weeks with transactions worth S$2.64bn ($1.9bn) sold since the start of May. While the swap driven nature of the demand means issuance will be patchy, bankers believe this trend could run for some time, writes Rev Hui.
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Canada’s Manulife Financial Corp and Singapore’s Mapletree Logistics Trust have added their names to the growing list of issuers accessing the Singapore dollar market for subordinated debt. And thanks to the comeback of private banks in the country, more issuers — both foreign and local — are expected to follow suit, reckon syndicate bankers.
