Svenska Handelsbanken top stories

• SSAs offer attractive levels in Swedish kronor

  

  Pockets of stability in the Swedish market drove demand across the curve this week, allowing investors the chance to pick up a handful of well-known SSA names at highly attractive levels.

  • 26 Mar 2020

• Svenska Handelsbanken EUR1bn 0.5% Feb 30 bail-in senior

  • 13 Feb 2020

• Nordic duo relishes ‘impressive’ reception in senior market

  Nordic banks Länsförsäkringar Bank (LF Bank) and Landsbankinn were able to offer “attractive value” in the preferred senior market this week, amid a general hunt for yield among credit investors.

  • 12 Feb 2020

• Handelsbanken and LBBW get similar spread for bail-in bonds

  The euro market had no trouble digesting a pair of similar trades from Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW) and Svenska Handelsbanken this week, with both banks printing non-preferred senior bonds at 58bp and paying a small new issue premium to investors.

  • 11 Feb 2020

• Kommuninvest readies first benchmark of 2020

  Swedish issuer Kommuninvest is preparing to launch its first deal of 2020 — a five year Swedish krona note.

  • 23 Jan 2020

• ABN and Deutsche diversify into sterling with new senior trades

  ABN Amro and Deutsche Bank opened books on new senior deals in the sterling bond market, with bankers recognising that the currency is 'working very well' for international names.

  • 09 Jan 2020

• FIG investors show ‘apathy’ for secondaries

  Financial institution investors, desperate for any sort of yield pick-up are keeping their cash away from secondaries in the hope of earning new issue concessions in a rejuvenated primary market.

  • 04 Sep 2019

• Negative yields no longer a ‘deal breaker’ for FIG investors

  Investors in unsecured bank debt instruments are unlikely to put up much of a fight against the inevitable march into negative yielding new issuance.

  • 28 Aug 2019

• HSBC and Handelsbanken dodge negative yields in senior

  HSBC France and Svenska Handelsbanken avoided issuing senior bonds at negative yields in a busy new issue market on Tuesday, but bankers said it was only a 'matter of time' before someone takes the plunge below 0% with an unsecured deal.

  • 27 Aug 2019

• Scandi taps flow again after summer break

  Volumes are growing across the spectrum in the Scandinavian MTN markets, as issuers and bankers return from their summer holidays. Meanwhile, bankers are expecting Scandinavian investors to move further out along the credit curve in response to negative yields as dovish Nordic central bank tones could lead to a bullish Scandinavian market.

  • 13 Aug 2019