DNB Bank ASA top stories

• 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

• Ice Group prepares to raise Nkr3bn on Oslo bourse

  Ice Group, a Norwegian provider of wireless telecommunications, has begun pre-marketing for an IPO on the main board of the Oslo Stock Exchange.

  • 15 Nov 2018

• Debutant IDG comes out ‘extremely aggressive’ while Victoria steps back

  The euro high yield market was giving signs that investor discrimination is back this week, as borrowers IDG and Victoria respectively marketed and postponed new issue bond deals.

  • 06 Nov 2018

• Luminor looks to light up new funding path after senior debut

  Luminor Bank, an Estonian financial institution, was looking to place a small senior unsecured deal in the euro market on Wednesday, in spite of volatile market conditions. The transaction will be the issuer’s first step towards reducing its reliance on bank facilities as a means of funding.

  • 10 Oct 2018

• DNB and LF Bank jostle for position with senior trades

  Though neither DNB Bank nor Länsförsäkringar Bank (LF Bank) were flooded with orders for new five year senior bonds on Tuesday, the Nordic pair were able to place their deals in the market comfortably.

  • 18 Sep 2018

• GlobalCapital Covered Bond Awards 2018: the winners

  The Cover and GlobalCapital held the annual Covered Bond Awards Dinner on Thursday night at BMW Welt in Munich, celebrating the best performers in the market.

  • 14 Sep 2018