Svenska Handelsbanken top stories

• Huhtamaki takes sustainability loan as single-use plastics outlawed

  

  Huhtamaki, the Finnish food packaging company, has refinanced a €400m facility, with the borrower becoming the latest to add sustainability metrics to its main bank line as an EU ban on single-use plastics comes into force.

  • 08 Jan 2021

• 2020 hindsight: bank finance

  After a remarkable year, GlobalCapital reflects on some of the most important stories in the bank finance and covered bond markets of 2020.

  • 23 Dec 2020

• Record low spreads on offer for ESG bank issues

  Two banks landed tight with environmental, social and governance (ESG) themed deals this week: Crédit Agricole settled at a record low on its social bond debut, while DZ Bank came even tighter with its first senior non-preferred green bond.

  • 03 Dec 2020

• Credit Suisse follows ratings upgrade with new AT1

  Credit Suisse gave investors an opportunity to buy new additional tier one (AT1) paper in the dollar market on Wednesday, shortly after receiving a credit ratings upgrade from Moody’s.

  • 02 Dec 2020

• Bank senior market teeters on brink of first negative yielding print

  European banks are running out of ways of selling senior bonds at positive yields. A near-miss from Svenska Handelsbanken this week was enough to convince the market that it’s only a matter of time before an issuer breaks the 0% barrier, write Tyler Davies and Frank Jackman.

  • 26 Nov 2020

• Svenska Handelsbanken EUR500m 0.01% December 2027 green senior

  • 26 Nov 2020

• Investors give thanks for long dated BNP Paribas bond

  BNP Paribas took advantage of the thirst for duration in the euro bond market on Thursday, offering investors a chance to get hold of long dated non-preferred senior paper.

  • 26 Nov 2020

• Handelsbanken flirts with zero

  Svenska Handelsbanken sailed very close negative yield territory when it printed a €500m seven year green senior non-preferred deal on Wednesday.

  • 25 Nov 2020

• Stadshypotek prints tightest covered in months

  Stadshypotek on Tuesday became the first Swedish bank to issue a euro benchmark covered bond this year, with its first euro deal secured on Norwegian mortgages. The bond was priced at the tightest spread for any covered bond issued outside the eurozone since May 2019.

  • 17 Nov 2020

• Banks reopen AT1 market for the first time in a month

  NatWest Group and Société Générale reopened the additional tier one (AT1) market to some fanfare this week, as investors showed they were hungry for yield by snapping up the deals.

  • 12 Nov 2020