Danske Bank
-
The European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) is preparing its first benchmark of the fourth quarter and Ireland has picked the banks to lead the first tap of its sovereign green bond. -
Corporate, FIG and SSA issuers placed floating rate notes this week, pegged to Euribor, Sonia and Libor. With so many issuers coming to market, bankers are interested to see which other borrowers 'take advantage of the liquidity'.
-
Oesterreichische Kontrollbank hit screens on Tuesday with its first ever sustainability bond, raising €500m with an eight year benchmark.
-
Teekay Shuttle Tankers has mandated a $150m “green bond” to fund new oil tankers built to the firm’s “e-shuttle” standards. The deal raises questions about the logic of using green-branded debt instruments to fund fossil fuel extraction.
-
Österreichische Kontrollbank (OeKB) is moving ahead with its debut socially responsible bond, after meeting investors earlier this month. Meanwhile, a French agency is preparing to showcase its own sustainable programme ahead of its debut benchmark bond.
-
-
Investors stormed into the euro public sector bond market this week fired up from the announcement of a new comprehensive stimulus package by the European Central Bank last week.
-
The European Investment Bank and Nordic Investment Bank kept the strong momentum going in the SSA euro bond market on Wednesday, capitalising on the European Central Bank’s announcement of fresh stimulus last week and a lack of issuance over the summer. However, Joint Laender's deal was only just oversubscribed, which the leads attributed to investors’ hesitance to buy a negative yielding 10 year bond from a less liquid name.
-
Fresh from the announcement of a new stimulus package by the European Central Bank last week, investors stormed into the euro public sector bond market on Tuesday, led by KfW and Bpifrance. The latter printed €1.25bn, equaling its biggest ever single issue. The strong momentum is set to continue with a string of mandates, including two supranationals for Wednesday.
-
The City of Gothenburg sold a new dual tranche green bond on Tuesday, raising a combined Skr1.8bn across fixed and floating rate tranches. The note was the first printed under its new updated green bond framework.
-
Sweden’s Peab has almost doubled the size of its local currency credit facility, with the construction and civil engineering company releasing a chunk of the financing once an acquisition finalises.
-
Swedish agency Kommuninvest doubled the size of its June 2023 green bond on Tuesday through a Skr3bn ($309.8m) tap. The tap was issued with a negative yield — rare for the Swedish krona market — and is the issuer’s first negative yielding green print since October 2016.
