Danske Bank
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Issuance in Swedish kronor picked up this week, with three corporate issuers placing Skr6.28bn ($667.9m) across four private placements, as issuers looked to get in ahead of the midsummer break. In euros, a Dutch and French agency both placed paper, while protests in Hong Kong caused yields to spike in offshore Chinese renminbi and Hong Kong dollars. -
Sweden’s Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget (SCA) has signed credit lines totalling Skr6bn ($638m), though the bulk of facility for the timber, pulp and paper company will remain undrawn.
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Finland’s SRV Group has extended its €100m revolving credit facility, as full refinancing operations remain elusive in what is proving to be a tough loans market in EMEA this year.
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Renault issued a €1bn bond from its industrial arm on Monday, after a tumultuous few weeks in which the company had negotiated a (for now) abandoned merger offer from Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. The deal came amid a busy flurry of smaller issues.
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An infrequent Swedish corporate issuer, a Nordic bank, and a German car manufacturer all placed floaters larger than Skr1bn ($106m) in the last week. Swedish krona bonds have been popular with both public and private issuers in recent weeks, as both issuers and investors rush to get business done before the traditional midsummer market closure.
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While four new issuers were squeezing into the euro corporate bond market on Wednesday, Norwegian Property, an unrated real estate investment company, slipped a Nkr950m (€97m) three tranche deal into the market.
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After 10 days of very scanty issuance and some weak markets, more stable conditions on Tuesday brought a salvo of five deals to the euro corporate bond market, offering a wide range of single-A and triple-B credits.
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Companies wanting to issue bonds in Europe this week will have to shoot their deals through narrow gaps between holidays, as Thursday is a holiday in several European countries, including France, Germany and the Netherlands.
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Swedish agency Kommuninvest has mandated three banks to run its forthcoming Swedish krona green bond. The issue will be its seventh green bond, and its fifth in Swedish kronor.
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The recent redemption of a Norwegian government bond has led to an increase in Nordic currency issuance this week, according to one MTN banker. The European Investment Bank and KfW tapped these released funds to raise a combined Nkr1.5bn ($171.2m).
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Denmark is likely to become the next European member state to scrap its policy of allowing the interest payments on deeply subordinated capital instruments to be tax deductible. The move comes after the European Commission voiced its concern that the practice could constitute a breach of state aid rules.
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