Svenska Handelsbanken top stories

• ING draws more than $8bn of demand for tight AT1 print

  

  A flood of orders helped ING Groep to price a $1.25bn additional tier one on top of fair value on Tuesday, with the Reg S dollar market back in action after Banco Santander’s landmark extension decision.

  • 19 Feb 2019

• Svenska reboots AT1 market after landmark extension decision

  Svenska Handelsbanken found strong demand at tight levels for a new additional tier one this week, helping to put to bed any concerns that the market might be languishing after the first ever ‘non-call’ in asset class.

  • 14 Feb 2019

• AT1s to bounce back from first non-call as Svenska mandates

  Svenska Handelsbanken picked banks on Wednesday to arrange the sale of a new additional tier one in the dollar market, with the dust yet to settle around Banco Santander’s decision to extend the life of one of its instruments.

  • 13 Feb 2019

• Svenska unlatches euro sub market

  Svenska Handelsbanken was in the market on Tuesday, setting final terms for €750m of tier two capital. It was the first bank to issue subordinated notes in euros since June.

  • 28 Aug 2018

• Schuldschein shrugs off Nordic bank dressing down from ESMA

  The European Securities and Markets Authority recently fined a clutch of Nordic banks for breaking credit rating regulations. The decision could have implications for the Schuldschein market — where arranging banks issue similar ratings to investors.

  • 09 Aug 2018

• If it ain’t broke, don’t regulate it

  The European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA) decision to fine five Nordic banks last week has raised two questions: just how consistently will rules be applied across Europe, and is it even appropriate that they are?

  • 02 Aug 2018

• ESMA fines five Scandi banks for issuing ‘shadow ratings’

  The European Securities and Markets Authority on Monday issued fines to five banks from the Nordic region totalling €2.475m, for issuing credit ratings without having gained the necessary approval.

  • 23 Jul 2018

• Stadshypotek swipes €1bn in sevens

  Stadshypotek issued a €1bn seven year on Wednesday marginally wider than where DNB Boligkreditt recently issued its much larger green inaugural deal in the same tenor. It followed a €500m five year from Sparebank Vest Boligkreditt.

  • 04 Jul 2018

• Pair of green debuts ‘tick all boxes’ in choppy market

  Raiffeisen Bank International and Svenska Handelsbanken were able to shrug off volatile trading conditions in the euro bond market this week to bring debut offerings of green senior debt.

  • 28 Jun 2018

• RBI ‘ticks all boxes’ with green senior debut

  Raiffeisen Bank International found healthy interest from investors in its first ever green bond deal on Thursday, as the bank returned to the euro senior market after an absence of just under five years.

  • 28 Jun 2018