Svenska Handelsbanken top stories

• Anima takes senior funding in seven year sweet spot

  

  Italian asset manager Anima Holding sold €300m of senior debt against a quiet backdrop this week, having decided to target the popular seven year tenor.

  • 15 Apr 2021

• BPCE and Rabo to hit busy Aussie dollar mart

  BPCE and Rabobank are in the market for Aussie dollar senior paper, with bankers expecting a busy April as a slew of financial issuers refinance maturing bonds.

  • 12 Apr 2021

• Handelsbanken Kangaroo lands at decade tight spread

  Svenska Handelsbanken returned to the Kangaroo market this week to print a five year preferred senior deal at a decade tight level, as the long-term absence of funding from the Aussie market's major domestic banks drives down senior spreads.

  • 25 Feb 2021

• Handelsbanken set for Aussie return

  Handelsbanken is set to return to the Australian dollar market for the first time in nearly two years this week, as Aussie dollar senior paper rallies thanks to the long term absence of funding from the market's major domestic banks.

  • 24 Feb 2021

• DKB becomes first FIG issuer to cross negative yield line

  The financial institutions bond market had its Roger Bannister moment this week, as Deutsche Kreditbank broke the zero yield barrier for the first time. Now that a German borrower has lifted the negative yield taboo, bankers expect even deeper yielding deals could follow.

  • 18 Feb 2021

• DKB brings first negative yielding FIG senior deal

  Deutsche Kreditbank (DKB) has broken the zero yield barrier with its latest deal, a €500m five year green senior preferred bond issued on Monday.

  • 15 Feb 2021

• Soc Gen taps demand for euro seven year paper

  Société Générale dived into the euro market in search of preferred senior paper on Friday morning, just days after reporting its 2020 results, becoming the fourth bank to tap the seven year part of the curve in the last fortnight.

  • 12 Feb 2021

• Caixa goes green as demand sprouts in euros

  CaixaBank found €3.7bn of demand for a green senior bond on Tuesday, as investors revealed their hunger for new paper. BayernLB could follow with a green deal of its own against the improving backdrop in euros.

  • 02 Feb 2021

• AT1 extension risk at rock bottom as Handelsbanken calls deal

  Svenska Handelsbanken has become the latest European bank to put out a call notice for one of its additional tier ones. Market participants are expecting a clean sweep of redemptions for the asset class this year.

  • 25 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