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◆ Books grow during pricing ◆ Geopolitical volatility does not derail hybrid deal ◆ Trade prices through fair value, tight to senior
◆ Hybrid books hold firm as senior sales shed ◆ Both tranches land far through fair value ◆ Telefónica achieves tight senior/sub spreads
◆ Peak demand reaches €11.5bn ◆ Longer call tightened harder than the short tranche
◆ Both tranches priced close to fair value
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The corporate hybrid capital market is a fragile origami designed to please rating agencies, tax authorities, accountants and investors all at once. Standard & Poor’s disrupted it last week by stripping equity credit from 29 deals. The market will get over this. But fundamentally, it remains in denial: hybrids as they stand are not a stable, reliable product. -
Standard & Poor’s infuriated corporate issuers and hybrid capital bankers this week by stripping the equity credit it had assigned to 29 corporate hybrid issues, in some cases only a few months ago.
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Issuers and investors were baffled this week by Standard & Poor’s decision to remove equity credit from hybrid capital bonds issued by 14 corporate borrowers — a decision that almost comically summed up the often self-referential, circular and abstruse reasoning that has driven the asset class’s history.
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The fragility of corporate hybrid capital was laid bare again this week, when Standard & Poor’s stripped the equity credit from 29 bonds, issued by 14 issuers.
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Standard & Poor’s has taken the corporate hybrid bond market by surprise, by withdrawing the equity credit from 29 bonds, giving issuers only 24 hours' notice before publishing its decision.
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Hybrid capital bankers who have insisted for the last few years that the rating agencies’ criteria were now stable and settled will be eating their words today. Standard & Poor’s has stripped the equity credit from 29 corporate hybrids, though it claims this is not a criteria change.
