Nordea top stories

• GN Store Nord chooses Black Friday for stealthy bond

  

  GN Store Nord, the unrated Danish maker of hearing aids and headsets, launched a €200m-€250m four year bond today under its newly established Euro-MTN programme.

  • 29 Nov 2019

• Bank Norwegian looks to land in Nokkie or Stokkie

  Bank Norwegian has mandated a pair of banks to look into a possible Norwegian krone or Swedish krona issuance.

  • 29 Nov 2019

• QE sparks hairy high yield spree as debutants take advantage

  A number of untested European companies have made their entrance to the international high yield bond market in the past two weeks as central banks fuel conditions that pamper repeat and new issuers alike, while driving investors into ever riskier assets in a hunt for yield. Karoliina Liimatainen reports.

  • 28 Nov 2019

• Assemblin wants to heat up euro high yield with €250m debut

  Swedish heating and ventilation service provider Assemblin is braving the euro-denominated high yield market for the first time with €250m bond issue, used for refinancing and dividends. Exceptionally favourable conditions lured Triton-backed Assemblin to try its hand with international investors.

  • 25 Nov 2019

• Kommuninvest USD1bn 1.625% Apr 23 green bond

  • 15 Nov 2019

• BNG and Kommuninvest join ESG ratings trend

  Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten and Kommuninvest followed in the footsteps of KfW as they included their environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings in the terms sheets for socially responsible bonds this week, with the latter selling the largest single-issue green bond from a Nordic public sector borrower.

  • 14 Nov 2019

• LBP endorses ‘decimalisation’ of AT1 market after tight debut print

  La Banque Postale has suggested that issuers of additional tier one (AT1) capital should drop the tradition of making large pricing steps in the euro market, after setting a very low coupon for its debut in the asset class this week.

  • 14 Nov 2019

• SSA pair line up to follow KommuneKredit in green wave

  Two SSA borrowers have will follow KommuneKredit's lead by issuing green bonds on Wednesday after the Danish agency announced and priced a deal on Tuesday.

  • 12 Nov 2019

• Bavarian Nordic injects debt for GSK vaccines

  Denmark’s Bavarian Nordic will buy two commercial vaccines from GlaxoSmithKline for €796m, in a debt funded acquisition that will be refinanced next year in the equity market.

  • 21 Oct 2019

• Teekay preps ‘green bond’ to fund new oil tanker fleet

  Teekay Shuttle Tankers has mandated a $150m “green bond” to fund new oil tankers built to the firm’s “e-shuttle” standards. The deal raises questions about the logic of using green-branded debt instruments to fund fossil fuel extraction.

  • 01 Oct 2019