Crédit Agricole
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Fresenius, the German healthcare company that launched the first equity-neutral convertible bond in 2014, returned on Thursday to issue another successful deal, this time to complete the financing of its €5.76bn acquisition of Quirónsalud, the Spanish hospitals group.
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Slovenia reopened the bond market for emerging European issuers in style on Tuesday, with a well-received dual tranche euro deal.
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SpareBank1 Boligkreditt, Aareal Bank and Nordea took advantage of strong demand for five year paper to issue oversubscribed deals this week, paying virtually no new issue concession.
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Shares in Elis, the French bed linen and laundry company, fell 3% on Thursday after it set terms for its €324m rights issue to cut its leverage after buying Indusal in Spain and Lavebras in Brazil. -
Italy on Wednesday produced an almost carbon copy trade of Belgium’s 10 year euro benchmark from earlier this week, printing €6bn as its curve tightened in the background — although with a longer dated bond.
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Bolloré, the French investment company, gave investment grade euro corporate bond investors their first unrated deal of the year on Wednesday, and managed to tighten its pricing by 25bp.
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Sparebank 1 Boligkreditt and Aareal Bank issued well oversubscribed covered bonds on Wednesday, paying virtually no new issue concession. Both banks took advantage of enduring demand for five year tenors, while for Aareal the issue was cheaper than the European Central Bank’s term liquidity.
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Italy is set to kick off its syndicated programme for the year with a September 2033 euro benchmark, as the sovereign brushed off a downgrade from DBRS late last week.
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Paper packaging maker Smurfit Kappa launched a drive by benchmark euro offering on Tuesday, as it looks to refinance existing securitisation facilities.
