Three corporates get ahead of Bayer after rates rally

It is a mark of how far the market has come from a barren week at the end of May that not just one, but three deals, totalling €2.75bn, were priced on Friday. The European Central Bank meeting and the expectation of a deal from German pharmaceuticals company Bayer played their part in the issuers’ decisions on timing and the order books justified those choices.

• 15 Jun 2018

Kommuninvest USD2.5bn 2.75% Oct 20

• 14 Jun 2018

Fed hike expectations push dollar demand further down curve

Public sector borrowers looking for dollar funding are likely to have to go even shorter than they have been used to after this week’s Federal Open Market Committee meeting, said SSA bankers.

• 14 Jun 2018

SSAs bring feast of SRI deals, plans

KommuneKredit will hit the road next week to talk up a new green bond, while a fellow Nordic issuer is looking to enter the social bond market — although not for some time yet.

• 14 Jun 2018

KommuneKredit out for green as agency mulls social debut

KommuneKredit will hit the road next week to talk up a new green bond, while a fellow Nordic issuer is looking to enter the social bond market — although not for some time yet.

• 14 Jun 2018

Salmon producer Marine Harvest reels in euro bond

The world’s largest salmon producer, Marine Harvest, sold the Nordic fish farming industry’s first bond for five years last week and as the industry scales up sources say a wave of issuance from the sector could be on the way.

• 04 Jun 2018

Terveystalo trades up after EQT sells out

EQT has cleared out its stake in Terveystalo, the Finnish private healthcare company it floated on the Nasdaq Helsinki in October.

• 21 May 2018

HSBC prints whopper as Yankees plunder US

HSBC took home $6bn from a callable bond issuance on Thursday, after Barclays opened the callable market for jumbo Yankee issuers earlier in the week.

• 10 May 2018

BMW announces eighth auto loan ABS

BMW Bank announced its eighth securitization of German auto loans on Tuesday, backed by an €800m static portfolio and co-led by bookrunners Commerzbank and Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken.

• 17 Apr 2018

Sterling market shows competitiveness in short end

While the euro primary market was running hot for financials this week, four banks also went to the sterling market for £1.625bn of senior funding, mainly concentrating on the shorter end of the curve.

• 15 Mar 2018