Deutsche Bank

Three borrowers from the Middle East came to market on Tuesday, raising a combined $3.35bn from five tranches across the curve. The deals come on top of a period of heavy supply, including Abu Dhabi’s $10bn triple trancher on Monday.

Chinese companies came to the international bond market in force on Tuesday, just days ahead of a week-long holiday in the Mainland to celebrate National Day.

French laundry firm Elis launched a dual tranche bond issue on Tuesday, achieving a coupon of just 1% for a high yield-rated issue, and stacking up a book of over €2bn.

Infrequent issuer Henkel made a decent return to the bond market in a dual tranche intraday transaction on Monday, with the chemical and consumer goods company shrugging off concerns about its longer duration tranche to print £750m.

Garbe Industrial Real Estate, a German developer, has announced its intention to float Logistrial, its logistical properties unit, on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

A run of 10 year covered bond issuance looks set to continue through to Wednesday with Bawag and Deutsche Bank announcing plans for Pfandbrief transactions. Bankers on these deals are hopeful that order book momentum improves, but some are slightly concerned that investor fatigue may be setting in.

Bankers brought a flood of Middle East bond supply to market on Tuesday, with four separate issuers — the Kingdom of Bahrain, DP World, National Bank of Fujairah and Islamic Development Bank — all announcing guidance for deals. The notes follow an already heavy week of supply from the Gulf, with Abu Dhabi having printed a $10bn triple trancher on the same day.

South Africa made its largest ever trip to capital markets on Monday, raising $5bn across two tranches. However, the size may have been too ambitious as the bonds suffered early in the secondary market. Although they have since recovered, some investors may be deterred from jumping into the rest of the week’s slew of deals.

Budweiser Brewing Company Apac has raised HK$39.2bn ($5bn) after pricing its IPO at the bottom of guidance, and partially using an increase option. It was the company’s second attempt at listing in Hong Kong.

Two Chinese companies tapped dollar bond investors on Monday. One of the most active issuers this year, Zhenro Properties Group, came out with an aggressively priced $300m transaction, while a district-level government financing vehicle sold its debut offshore deal.

Germany’s Henkel, a chemical and consumer goods company, launched a dual tranche sterling bond on Monday, as bankers said the busy high grade market was showing signs of saturation.

Assicurazioni Generali has become the first European financial institution to launch a green tier two bond. The Italian insurer attracted €3.25bn of orders, helping it to price its €750m deal about 10bp inside fair value, according to a syndicate banker.