Crédit Agricole
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Deal after deal has hit screens in euros this week as issuers from all across the public sector spectrum printed in maturities from five to 30 years. -
Renewed appetite in the long end of the curve allowed Crédit Agricole Home Loan SFH to add a rare benchmark 20 year covered bond to an offering of eight and 15 year notes on Wednesday, as the French lender walked away with a healthy €2.5bn of funding.
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VodafoneZiggo obtained the go-ahead from leveraged loan investors on Tuesday to increase the size of its refinancing deal by more than €2bn while cutting margins.
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While many of the main euro issuers have already scored their big January benchmarks, the pipeline of euro issuance is growing increasingly congested, although the range of maturities on offer should allow borrowers to avoid treading on each other's toes.
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France surpassed the expectations of even the most passionate supporters of the green bond market on Tuesday, selling comfortably the largest ever print in the format. Socially responsible investment (SRI) experts believe the deal makes it almost certain that other sovereign issuers will add green bonds to their funding mix.
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The Agence France Trésor has announced the maturity date for the first ever French sovereign green bond, which could be priced this week.
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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.
