Crédit Agricole
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Only one SSA issuer took advantage of strong conditions in the dollar market this week. Bankers said that there could be more supply next week, though most issuers are so well-funded that deals are likely to remain thin on the ground. -
New deals marketed this week by US borrowers Owens-Illinois and Federal-Mogul pushed reverse Yankee issuance to 25% of the €22bn of euro high yield issuance so far in 2017.
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Albéa, the French packaging firm owned by Sun Capital Partners, has scheduled a bank meeting for Monday in London about a $921m-equivalent bond to loan refinancing and dividend recapitalisation.
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SNCF Réseau on Wednesday printed at the upper end of its size expectations with its second ever green bond, while the International Finance Corporation looked at the possibility of printing in the green format over the next three months.
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With public sector borrowers having reached advanced stages in their annual funding programmes as the first quarter comes to a close, focus is shifting to socially responsible bonds.
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Volkswagen has returned to the public straight bond markets in its own name for the first time since September 2015, when it was swept from the market by its emissions test cheating scandal. Bond markets being what they are, a multi-billion euro blowout is likely.
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South Korea’s Shinhan Bank secured a tightly priced $500m deal on Tuesday, taking advantage of an otherwise quiet market as well as the Monday success of Korea National Oil Corp.
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The socially responsible bond pipeline ballooned on Tuesday, with a European supranational announcing a roadshow for a debut issue, a French agency mandating for a deal and a Washington supranational pricing a social bond in benchmark size for the first time.
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Unédic launched a 10 year benchmark on Tuesday. The deal came in the wake of a televised debate between the French presidential candidates that appeared to restore investors’ confidence in French names, according to an SSA syndicate banker at one of the leads.
