Raiffeisen Bank International AG top stories

• Erste targets price over size with new euro preferred senior

  

  Erste Group Bank was first out of the blocks this week to tap the euro market for senior preferred paper, with the lack of competing supply allowing the bank to target 'pricing over size', according to one of the leads.

  • 18 Jan 2021

• Mayr-Melnhof Karton looks for Schuldschein in debut deal

  Austrian paper and packaging firm Mayr-Melnhof Karton, called MM Karton for short, has launched a Schuldscheine, with an initial target of €300m.

  • 14 Jan 2021

• Oberbank readies sub-benchmark SNP

  Oberbank is preparing to launch a sub-benchmark non-preferred senior deal into a quiet FIG market that has not seen a senior deal since Tuesday.

  • 14 Jan 2021

• Huhtamaki takes sustainability loan as single-use plastics outlawed

  Huhtamaki, the Finnish food packaging company, has refinanced a €400m facility, with the borrower becoming the latest to add sustainability metrics to its main bank line as an EU ban on single-use plastics comes into force.

  • 08 Jan 2021

• RBI encourages clients to issue/borrow in sustainable formats

  Raiffeisen Bank International’s clients are increasingly looking to achieve more sustainable, fairer and more transparent ways of doing business. In this context, RBI maintains a comprehensive dialogue with an ever-increasing pool of clients on sustainable finance, e.g. bonds, loans and Schuldscheine. We focus our attention not only on “green”, but also cover sustainability-linked instruments, a rapidly growing area in the sustainable finance universe.

  • 08 Jan 2021

• RBI — largest Austrian issuer of green bonds

  Since 2018, Raiffeisen Bank International has issued several green bonds. Targeting private and institutional investors, the bonds support the growth of green financing at RBI’s headquarters and across its subsidiary banks in CEE, thereby facilitating a reduction of more than 60,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions per year. This corresponds to the annual greenhouse gas emissions of more than 13,000 cars or almost 7,000 households.

  • 08 Dec 2020

• Austria’s RBI improves CET1 ratio with €3.3bn synthetic securitization

  Raiffeisen Bank International AG (RBI) has securitized a loan portfolio of €3.3bn, retaining the senior and junior tranches in a synthetic securitization but selling the mezz to boost its common equity tier one ratio by about 10bp.

  • 07 Dec 2020

• RBI aims for central role in green and social bond market

  European green bond issuance has significantly outpaced that in other regions over the last four years and in 2020 the European Union is set to be responsible for more than 50% of global green bond issues (sources: S&P Ratings, Climate Bond Initiative).

  • 02 Dec 2020

• Long end is the strong end for BP and Deutsche Bahn

  BP, the oil major, was joined at the long end of the bond market on Tuesday by railway company Deutsche Bahn, as issuers take advantage of low spreads to stretch out their debt maturities.

  • 01 Dec 2020

• CPI Property grows revolver with liquidity still the key concern for corps

  CPI Property, the Frankfurt listed property owner, has signed a new €700m revolving credit facility, bumping up the size of its main bank line as lenders say liquidity is still a focus for corporates.

  • 27 Nov 2020