SEB top stories

• NWB EUR500m 0% Feb 37

  • 21 Jan 2021

• EIB reboots €STR FRN market with curve extension

  The Europe Investment Bank extended the euro short term rate (€STR) floating rate note curve on Wednesday with 2021’s first deal in the format.

  • 21 Jan 2021

• New year brings relief to international Schuldschein arrangers

  The decline in international and debut Schuldschein issuance last year had a disproportionate impact on non-German bank arrangers. But this year’s bright start has given them a new lease of life.

  • 20 Jan 2021

• France smashes order book record with new 50 year as long end stays hot

  France set a new order book record with its new 50 year syndicated bond on Tuesday. Two other public sector borrowers joined the sovereign at the long of the euro curve.

  • 19 Jan 2021

• Volvo Cars shifts green drive up a gear with sustainability loan

  Volvo Cars, the Chinese-owned Swedish auto maker, has refinanced its main bank revolver with a €1.3bn sustainability-linked revolving credit facility, as the borrower looks to become climate neutral by 2040.

  • 13 Jan 2021

• Nokkie double for MuniFin

  Finland’s Municipality Finance has had a busy week in the Norwegian krone market, as demand from domestic bank treasuries for high quality liquid assets (HQLA) drove a pair of floating rate notes in the currency.

  • 12 Jan 2021

• Sticks and carrots to drive broadening of sustainable finance

  Practitioners believe 2021 could be the year when sustainable finance finally breaks out of the narrow confines it has inhabited so far and spreads more widely across the economy.

  • 11 Jan 2021

• SSAs kick off 2021 MTN market

  MTN issuance out of Asia and Sweden provided some of the week’s bright spots in what was otherwise a quiet start to the year. With the public market now in full swing, bankers expect the private placement market to get up to speed in the coming weeks.

  • 08 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

• High grade corporates pile into scorching market

  Europe’s investment grade corporate bond market continued its blazing start to the year on a busy Tuesday with trades coming flat to or through secondary curves, and syndicate bankers say the blistering momentum is set to last throughout January.

  • 05 Jan 2021