SEB top stories

• NWB makes a splash with water bond as EU lines up EFSM deal

  

  Nederlandse Waterschapsbank was twice covered and paid zero new issue premium as it sold an intraday 30 year water bond on Monday. The European Union will follow into the euro public sector bond market on Tuesday to fund a maturity lengthening operation under its European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism programme.

  • 19 Apr 2021

• Post-results Scandie credit pipeline builds

  A handful of borrowers are circling the Nordic markets with an eye to printing after the end of first quarter results. But the looming blackouts have not deterred every type of credit from tapping the market as a range of corporate, covered bond and financial issuers placed paper this week.

  • 16 Apr 2021

• SSA pair look to Scandinavia

  Norwegian krone SSA supply is outpacing Swedish kronor so far this year, driven in part by a demand for zero risk weighted assets in the market. Among the latest names to access the Norwegian market is the African Development Bank, which sold a new social bond as part of a dual-currency issue.

  • 15 Apr 2021

• Euronav docks SLL as ship finance steers towards ESG

  Euronav, the Belgian tanker company, has signed a sustainability-linked revolving credit facility, as the shipping industry comes under increasing scrutiny over its carbon output.

  • 13 Apr 2021

• World Bank and KfW print Scandi SRI bonds

  World Bank and KfW sold socially responsible bonds in Scandinavian currencies on Tuesday.

  • 10 Mar 2021

• Volkswagen tightens auto spread to 2018 with market reopener

  Auto spreads in the European ABS market have tightened to levels not seen since 2018 after Volkswagen Bank priced its German lease deal, VCL 32, at a discount margin of 15bp over one-month Euribor on Wednesday.

  • 25 Feb 2021

• Single-A supply printed tight as ECB squeezes investors into low spreads

  EnBW, the German electrical utility, and the financing arm of a Dutch truck company, DAF Paccar Financial, hit screens with highly rated euro trades on Monday. Central bank bond buying higher than forecast, pushed investors to oversubscribe the deals even though the spreads on offer were thin.

  • 22 Feb 2021

• Bubble called as H&M debut soars

  Hennes & Mauritz, the Swedish clothing retailer, earned blowout demand for its sustainability-linked debut bond, but bankers off the trade said on Thursday that the exuberance was indicative of just how far capital markets have strayed from reality.

  • 18 Feb 2021

• H&M gets €5.4bn of orders for SLB debut bond

  H&M, the Swedish clothing retail company, has received blowout demand for its debut bond, as the “perfect storm” of ESG criteria and European Central Bank rule changes to allow it to buy sustainability-linked bonds saw the order book bulge to almost 11 times subscribed at guidance.

  • 18 Feb 2021

• H&M hits sustainability-linked market for first ever bond

  Hennes & Mauritz, the Swedish clothing retailer, has chosen to issue its first ever bond in the novel sustainability-linked format.

  • 15 Feb 2021