Scotiabank top stories

• Wynn Macau sells $750m bond at initial guidance

  

  Hotel and casino operator Wynn Macau followed its gaming peers into the dollar bond market last Friday, but weaker market sentiment meant the borrower failed to tighten guidance on its $750m deal.

  • 15 Jun 2020

• World Bank reopens Maple market with bumper C$1.5bn deal

  The World Bank returned to the Canadian dollar on Wednesday with a new C$1.5bn ($1.11bn) sustainable development bond, as movements in the cross currency basis swap, as well as the spread to Canadian Mortgage Bonds (CMBs), allowed the supranational to print the largest SSA Maple deal since last July.

  • 11 Jun 2020

• Belgium returns to dollars as AIIB and NWB ready SRI bonds

  Belgium took advantage of more attractive funding conditions in dollars versus euros and strong demand at the 10 year point of the curve to sell its first dollar bond since 2017 on Tuesday. SSA supply in dollars will continue on Wednesday with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and Nederlandse Waterschapsbank bringing socially responsible deals.

  • 19 May 2020

• Belgium set for dollar return as SSAs seek arb

  Belgium is set to issue its first dollar bond since 2017 as euro funders continue to take advantage of the attractive funding conditions in the currency, with three other public sector borrowers also in the market for dollars.

  • 18 May 2020

• JFM and Ontario snap up dollars

  The Province of Ontario raised $1.75bn with a rare seven year dollar benchmark on Thursday. The transaction shared the market with a five year from Japan Finance Organisation for Municipalitities.

  • 15 May 2020

• Finland returns to busy dollar market

  The Republic of Finland had to share its return to dollar market on Wednesday with a trio of three year SSA deals. Demand for dollar SSA bonds has been strong this week, and with mandates out for five and seven year deals,issuers are still looking to take advantage

  • 13 May 2020

• SSAs delight in dollars as pipeline builds

  Public sector borrowers found plenty of demand as they hit the market with dollar deals across the curve on Tuesday. With robust demand and a favourable basis swap for euro funders, more issuers have lined up deals in the currency to follow.

  • 12 May 2020

• UBS prints rare Swissie op-co deal

  Issuers are starting to feel more comfortable with the new normal of wider spreads as a flurry of deals dusted the Swiss franc market, including a rare operating-company level visit from UBS.

  • 06 May 2020

• Chile notches negative NIP in dollars on dual currency outing

  Even as sovereign restructuring and debt relief top the agenda for emerging markets bond buyers, investors are showing faith in the top names in the asset class. Tuesday was Chile’s turn; the sovereign breezed its way through two currencies, notching a negative new issue premium in dollars and becoming the first non-European sovereign to issue in euros since the Covid-19 crisis began.

  • 06 May 2020

• Metro plots deal as Lat Am opens for IG corps

  Empresa de Transporte de Pasajeros Metro (Metro) could become the second Chilean government-linked issuer to offer bonds in the international market in less than a week, as investors say that the corporate market is likely to remain the preserve of the best-rated issuers.

  • 30 Apr 2020