DZ Bank

A pair of Austrian banks kept a quiet senior euro market ticking over earlier this week. Erste targeted price over size with a new senior deal, while Oberbank attracted a granular orderbook on its first visit to the non-preferred market.

Deutsche Pfandbriefbank could take advantage of a quiet backdrop in the euro FIG market to launch the first deal from its green bond framework.

Oberbank sold its first senior non-preferred bond on Tuesday. The issuer's investor work paid off as more than 70 accounts poured into the sub-benchmark deal, which was almost two times covered.

Erste Group Bank was first out of the blocks this week to tap the euro market for senior preferred paper, with the lack of competing supply allowing the bank to target 'pricing over size', according to one of the leads.

Hamburg Airport has pulled a Schuldschein transaction with an initial target of €100m, according to several market sources, due to a lack of interest from investors.

Muenchener Hypothekenbank (MuHyp) sold the longest covered bond of the year so far this week, and bankers expect more long end deals to follow.

Oberbank is preparing to launch a sub-benchmark non-preferred senior deal into a quiet FIG market that has not seen a senior deal since Tuesday.

DZ Bank said this week that it will redeem eight tier one bonds issued out of special purpose vehicles, in preparation of the EU’s Capital Requirements Regulation transition period ending.

Europe’s investment grade corporate bond market continued its blazing start to the year on a busy Tuesday with trades coming flat to or through secondary curves, and syndicate bankers say the blistering momentum is set to last throughout January.

Two banks landed tight with environmental, social and governance (ESG) themed deals this week: Crédit Agricole settled at a record low on its social bond debut, while DZ Bank came even tighter with its first senior non-preferred green bond.

Intesa Sanpaolo paid a visit to the MTN market this week to print a rare, privately placed tier two deal in euros.

Crédit Agricole landed at an extremely tight level on Wednesday morning as it made its social bond debut with a seven year senior non-preferred deal, following in the footsteps of last week's near zero yield print from Svenska Handelsbanken.