La Caixa top stories

• CaixaBank prices preferred flat to curve

  

  CaixaBank took advantage of strong market conditions to issue a €1bn seven year senior preferred transaction on Tuesday with strong demand allowing the issuer to price flat to its curve. At the same time, RBS opened order books for a dollar-denominated five year senior deal.

  • 19 Mar 2019

• Telefonica gets max sizes, little or no NIP on hybrid/senior pair

  Telefónica, the Spanish telecoms group with €55bn of debt, came to the euro market on Tuesday to refinance two of its hybrid capital bonds. It launched a tender offer for the pair, which now total €1.3bn, and a hybrid new issue to replace them, tacking on opportunistically a 10 year senior bond issue.

  • 08 Mar 2019

• Peripheral banks bounce after positive SREP results

  Southern European banks were given a lift at the beginning of the week, when they emerged from the European Central Bank’s annual supervisory review and evaluation process (SREP) with their capital requirements broadly unchanged.

  • 11 Feb 2019

• Digital Realty and Enel reopen green bond market

  On Friday, American data centre owner Digital Realty sold the first green corporate bond in euros of 2019, but investors did not have long to wait for the second one as Italian energy company Enel also chose to issue in the format.

  • 14 Jan 2019

• Fears linger in FIG despite bumper week for issuance

  Banks broke in the new year with an outpouring of primary market sales this week. But an improved backdrop in the euro market has yet to convince anyone that their fears about 2019 might have been misplaced, with bankers warning that conditions could soon take a turn for the worse, writes Tyler Davies.

  • 10 Jan 2019

• CaixaBank finds room to tighten 20bp for MREL senior

  CaixaBank was testing the strength of appetite for riskier debt instruments in the euro market on Thursday, bringing the lowest rated deal from bank so far this year.

  • 10 Jan 2019

• Huge relief for Spanish banks after court reverses mortgage tax ruling

  Spanish banks were among the best performers in the debt and equity markets on Wednesday, after the country’s Supreme Court surprised market participants by reversing a ruling that would have meant that lenders were liable to pay stamp duty on mortgage loans.

  • 07 Nov 2018

• Banks pounce on calmer conditions for non-preferred funding

  CaixaBank and Commerzbank proved popular in the euro market this week, after timing their latest non-preferred senior debt sales to perfection.

  • 18 Oct 2018

• Caixa cashes MREL in amid stronger market tone

  CaixaBank proved popular this week on its return to the non-preferred senior bond market, raising €1bn and welcoming more than two times as many orders.

  • 17 Oct 2018

• EDP, Schiphol and ALD swell green bond volumes

  One of Europe’s major electricity producers, Portugal’s EDP, sold its first green bond on Tuesday, aligning its fundraising with the company’s green principles. Meanwhile, Dutch airport owner and operator Royal Schiphol Group announced plans for its debut green bond. Both followed French vehicle leasing company ALD’s inaugural green bond.

  • 11 Oct 2018