LBBW top stories

• Schuldschein arrangers await first wave of international deals in 2020

  

  Arrangers are confident that a wave of international issuers will enter the Schuldschein market soon, with German borrowers having having kick-started proceedings at the beginning of the new year.

  • 03.15 PM

• LBBW mandates leads for first green sterling non-preferred

  Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW) is set to become the first issuer of green non-preferred senior paper in the sterling bond market, as well as the first financial institution to include sustainability ratings in a new deal mandate.

  • 17 Jan 2020

• Asia extends its influence in European private debt

  Gradually over the past decade, Asian investors have become more and more important to European corporate private debt markets, to the point where they are now often indispensable. Asian borrowers have been slower to appear, but are now arriving. However, while these arrivals have largely benefited these markets, they have introduced a few complications.

  • 13 Jan 2020

• Land NRW EUR1.3bn 1.375% Jan 20

  • 09 Jan 2020

• Crédit Agricole Italia's dual tranche offers more juice with longer tenor

  Crédit Agricole Italia marketed a dual-tranche bond with eight year and 25 year maturities. A steeper curve helped the longer tranche offer a higher pickup against the shorter bond, but investors still placed hefty orders on both tenors.

  • 09 Jan 2020

• Claas enters SSD market for ‘forward funding’

  German agricultural machinery firm Claas has entered the Schuldschein market for a minimum of €150m, with one of the deal's tranches not settling until mid-August.

  • 09 Jan 2020

• SSAs fly in euros from five to 100 years

  Investors piled into the euro public sector bond market on Wednesday, allowing borrowers to achieve well subscribed order books and minimal new issue concessions for a range of maturities.

  • 08 Jan 2020

• Vetter first off the blocks in Schuldschein market

  German pharmaceutical firm Vetter launched a Schuldschein on Tuesday, which is the first such offering in the market in 2020.

  • 08 Jan 2020

• KfW opens the floodgates for euro SSA market

  A strong reception for a five year euro benchmark by KfW on Tuesday was enough to lure in a hesitant flock of public sector borrowers to the euro market as the pipeline stacks up for Wednesday’s business.

  • 07 Jan 2020

• Covered bond issuers take 'conservative' approach

  Issuers rushed to open the euro covered bond market this week. Trades from ABN Amro, Erste Group and LBBW showed that investors are ready to put cash to work, but higher new issue premiums suggested that issuers were taking a 'conservative' approach at the beginning of the year.

  • 07 Jan 2020