Crédit Agricole
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Hera, the Italian utility, had the market to itself on Thursday, as corporate bond supply fell. But syndicate desks were split over whether this week’s roaring demand could encourage other opportunistic issuers to the market well into December. -
Two public sector borrowers hit the euro bond market on Wednesday, raising what might well be the final benchmark funding of 2020.
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Shopping mall operator Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield priced a €2bn dual tranche bond from €7.2bn of demand on Wednesday, after fixed income investors were left unfazed by its shareholders blocking a rights issue earlier this month.
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Hong Kong Broadbank Network has increased a loan to HK$5.5bn ($709m) after attracting 20 participants during syndication.
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Carmila, the French shopping centre owner, rode the positive sentiment generated by news of another promising Covid-19 vaccine on Monday to launch a sub-benchmark bond. Bankers expect such opportunistic, small scale deals to dominate corporate issuance for the rest of the year.
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Thales, the French aerospace and defence company, offered Europe’s high grade bond investors something towards the top of the rating scale on Thursday, while lower rated sub-benchmark sized debt from Finland’s Metso Outotec offered buyers the chance for a bit more spread.
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The People’s Republic of China returned to the European market on Wednesday, part of its plan to make euro bond outings an annual exercise. The €4bn transaction was a blow-out, with the order book well oversubscribed — and one of the three tranches achieving the sovereign’s first negative yield. Morgan Davis reports.
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High grade corporate bonds flew off the shelves again on Wednesday, with French computer game maker Ubisoft coming through fair value despite growing concern that the rush of deals would mean issuers paying higher new issue premiums.
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The European Union received strong demand as it tapped a June 2035 line on Wednesday to finance loan disbursements under its Covid-19 Macro-Financial Assistance (MFA) programme.
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Gategroup, the Swiss airline hospitality company, has negotiated with lenders to extend the maturity on its syndicated loan facilities as part of a major debt restructuring for the Covid-battered firm.
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A flurry of Gulf issuers was on track on Tuesday to securing last minute bond funding, as investor appetite appeared insatiable for emerging market debt amid a rally that may well be curtailed by the impending US Thanksgiving holiday.
