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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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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. -
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.
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After weeks of volatility and fractious executions in Europe's corporate bond markets, BHP Billiton has pulled off the biggest ever corporate hybrid bond sale, proving investors are open to buying even quite challenging deals, if they come with lashings of yield, writes Ross Lancaster.
