Denmark

KommuneKredit is set to hit the road for its debut green bond, after mandating banks on Thursday.

The heads of funding at DNB Boligkreditt and Royal Bank of Canada told delegates at this week’s IMN conference that investors are well protected from a potential fall in house prices. UK covered bonds are similarly resilient, said a director at Fitch Ratings. And even in a hard Brexit, the privileged position of covered bonds would be upheld by UK courts, said a partner at Clifford Chance.

Nets, the largest Scandinavian payments processor, priced its first euro bond on Thursday amid keen demand for top rated high yield paper that is leading to low coupons.

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Danske Bank will sell its first ever additional tier one with an equity conversion trigger this week, as it looks to target the dollar market for bonds it can still account for as debt.

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Nykredit Realkredit found weaker conditions on its return to the senior resolution note format on Thursday, having recently updated its issuance programme to make sure the bonds will become "non-preferred" senior if Denmark changes its insolvency law.

Ship financing has been through a torrid time as falling prices have tested and broken the business models of the main German lenders — and so the ship-backed Pfandbrief market has virtually run aground. But Danmarks Skibskredit, an established Danish shipping lender with a strong track record, is mulling a euro-denominated shipping covered bond, and trying to change investors' views of the product, delegates heard at the LBBW covered bond forum on Thursday.

Danske Bank showed enduring demand for five year covered bonds on Monday when it issued the first Danish covered bond in euros this year. In common with other deals issued in this part of the curve, the bonds quickly attracted a well oversubscribed order book.

Europe’s equity block trade market kicked into a higher gear this week, with a rush of deals including big trades in Lonza, Worldpay and Dong Energy. The Dong trade on Thursday night, worth Dkr6.5bn (€874m), pushes the week’s total above €3bn.

Christian Hansen, head of equity capital markets Denmark at Nordea, has left the bank on Thursday this week, in order to join Danske Bank in the summer.

Swedish Match is selling a 9% stake in Scandinavian Tobacco Group, the Copenhagen-listed cigar and pipe tobacco producer, this evening (Wednesday) though an accelerated bookbuild led by Deutsche Bank and Nordea.