DNB Bank ASA top stories

• DNB diversifies into sterling after tight euro print

  

  DNB Bank dipped into the sterling market on Tuesday to raise £300m of preferred senior funding, less than a week after it issued the tightest-priced euro deal so far this year.

  • 10 Apr 2019

• Investors flock to popular senior print from Erste

  Erste Group was nearly 10 times subscribed for a €500m five year senior bond on Tuesday, with issuers enjoying extremely favourable conditions in the euro market.

  • 09 Apr 2019

• Saxony-Anhalt makes Nokkie bond debut

  The Federal State of Saxony-Anhalt issued its debut Norwegian krone bond on April 1. The treasury was pleased with a successful private placement that could open up a new funding market for Saxony-Anhalt.

  • 03 Apr 2019

• DNB lands tightest 2019 senior despite money laundering noise

  Norway’s DNB Bank on Tuesday broke a record for the tightest pricing in preferred senior format so far this year, finding strong demand for a new transaction, despite market concerns about money laundering among Nordic financial institutions.

  • 03 Apr 2019

• Norwegian gets rights issue support despite headwinds

  Norwegian Air Shuttle, the Norwegian airline, has priced its heavily discounted Nkr3bn (€308m) rights issue receiving a high take-up from shareholders, despite safety concerns over some of its fleet and heavy shorting of the stock.

  • 12 Mar 2019

• Luminor to test pan-Baltic covered bonds under Estonian law

  Parliamentary approval of Estonian covered bond legislation opens the way for Luminor Bank to make the first steps towards establishing a pan-Baltic covered bond market, according to the bank’s head of treasury, Max Ehrengren.

  • 19 Feb 2019

• Scope for further covered bond tightening questioned

  SEB issued a seven year covered bond last week 9bp tighter than where DNB Boligkreditt was able to print at the start of this year, showing just how far spreads have rallied. Even though the market is still well supported, investors could soon become reluctant to chase the market even tighter.

  • 04 Feb 2019

• Shares in Norwegian nosedive after rights issue announcement

  Shares in Norwegian Air Shuttle, the Norwegian budget airline, fell 25% on Tuesday after the company announced an Nkr3bn (€308m) rights offer to avoid breaking its financial covenants following widening losses and an abandoned takeover attempt by IAG.

  • 29 Jan 2019

• Canadian and Nordic covereds hit the spot

  Investors flocked to Nordic and Canadian covered bonds issued this week by DNB Boligkreditt, Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS) and National Bank of Canada, perhaps reflecting a view that their spreads are well positioned to withstand the European Central Bank’s withdrawal from covered bond market.

  • 10 Jan 2019

• DNB ticks all the covered boxes

  DNB Boligkreditt attracted a comfortably oversubscribed order book for its €1.5bn seven year covered bond on Monday, illustrating the market’s sweet-spots for tenor, name and jurisdiction.

  • 07 Jan 2019