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The Schuldschein market, traditionally a safe and stolid funding product for German companies borrowing from German insurers, has been on a tear of late, with extensive international interest on the buy- and sell-sides, booming issuance volumes, and a procession of digital initiatives to streamline the market. But it has not all been good news.
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Drax Group, the UK electricity generator, has sold £375m of US private placement debt, alongside a £125m environmental, social and governance facililty to repay a bridge loan used to fund its acquisition of Scottish Power Generation.
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Forth Ports, the port operator headquartered in Edinburgh, has sold roughly £300m-equivalent of US private placements (PPs).
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A cavalcade of “familiar names” have come to the market over the last week. SSAs, corporates and FIG issuers printed across the euro curve, while a trio of supranationals were also active in emerging market currencies.
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German car parts maker ZF Friedrichshafen, which issued the largest ever Schuldschein in late 2015, is set to make a grand return to the market this year.
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Italian manufacturer Industria Macchine Automatiche (I.M.A) has raised €50m of Euro private placement notes (Euro PP).