Danske Bank
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NatWest expanded its environmental, social and governance (ESG) offering with its debut social housing bond this week, the first from a UK financial issuer, landing the €1bn deal well through fair value. -
Tryg Forsikring found strong demand for a new restricted tier one (RT1) bond in the Swedish market on Wednesday, as it looked to optimise its capital structure in preparation for the purchase of RSA Insurance Group’s Nordic businesses.
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NatWest Group sold the first social housing bond from a UK financial issuer on Tuesday, attracting a highly granular peak order book of over €4.5bn. Investors have latched onto environment, social and governance (ESG) linked bank supply over the past few weeks, with two more labelled deals set to follow in the coming days.
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A pair of sovereigns privately placed century bonds this week, with one of the borrowers — Ireland — dipping below the 1% point for the first time at this sort of tenor.
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Hennes & Mauritz, the Swedish clothing retailer, earned blowout demand for its sustainability-linked debut bond, but bankers off the trade said on Thursday that the exuberance was indicative of just how far capital markets have strayed from reality.
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This week was the busiest of the year so far for bank senior supply in euros, as issuers took advantage of strong market conditions after posting full year results.
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H&M, the Swedish clothing retail company, has received blowout demand for its debut bond, as the “perfect storm” of ESG criteria and European Central Bank rule changes to allow it to buy sustainability-linked bonds saw the order book bulge to almost 11 times subscribed at guidance.
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UBS and Santander Consumer Finance found a combined €8.15bn of demand across the senior curve on Monday, printing deals between five and twelve years in tenor. With market conditions good, bankers expect more deals to follow.
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Hennes & Mauritz, the Swedish clothing retailer, has chosen to issue its first ever bond in the novel sustainability-linked format.
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SpareBank 1 SMN’s second green bond, priced on Thursday, is set to spark a flurry of similar green deals as issuers try and take advantage of the demand on offer for labelled debt — even at near-term tights.
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Castellum, a Nordic real estate company, has failed in its bid for Norwegian rival Entra, leading to the cancellation of $3.5bn-equivalent of bridge financing.
