Currencies
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Asia’s debt capital markets opened with a bang on Wednesday with five issuers fighting for attention. Investors have plenty of choice including a euro deal and a trio of dollar offerings from Chinese FIG and corporate names. -
US drugs specialist Catalent Pharma on Tuesday began offering its debut euro bond to investors as it sought funding for its acquisition of peers Pharmatek and Accucaps.
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Kommunalbanken added a A$40m ($29.8m) tap to its December 2026 Kangaroo bond on Tuesday, responding to a Japanese life insurer's request.
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Italy’s bond yields hit their highest levels at auction since June 2015 at the country’s final bond sale before Sunday's constitutional reform referendum that could lead to the resignation of prime minister Matteo Renzi.
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The Italian Treasury is on Tuesday set to hold its last bond auction before the country holds a referendum on constitutional reform that analysts believe could have an impact on eurozone periphery spreads into the new year.
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Swiss telecoms company Swisscom took domestic investors on a trip down negative lane on Wednesday as it printed a Sfr200m ($197.5m) eleven year note with a 9bp negative new issue premium.
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The European Commission’s package of bank regulation measures, released on Wednesday and now dubbed ‘CRD V’, will ease regulations that threatened to mean ‘game over’ for the European repo market.
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The African Development Bank and FMO took advantage of a maturing Scandinavian SRI investor base this week, printing SRI bonds worth Skr1.25bn ($135.1m) and Skr700m respectively.
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The African Development Bank printed a Skr1.25bn ($135.3m) June 2022 green bond on Thursday. AfDB's trade follows FMO's Skr700m seven year sustainability bond that was priced on Tuesday.
