DZ Bank
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The European Union (EU) began its funding for the year on Wednesday, later than other public sector borrowers. With a €250m syndication to finance disbursements to Tunisia and Jordan as it adapts to a smaller borrowing programme. -
German agriculture, energy, logistics and services group BayWa printed a €500m five year green bond on Monday, building a strong €750m book — despite some ambiguity about how to treat the unrated corporate.
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Dutch agency BNG via DZ Bank has placed the first ‘smart n-bond’, a Namensschuldverschreibung (NSV) issued through digital platform European private placement facility (eppf). Participants hailed this transaction as a step towards a functioning pan-European private placement market.
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This week is set to be busy in Europe's investment grade corporate bond market, despite yet another dead day on Monday because of public holidays. Equities rose on Monday and sentiment is good; market participants have decided they are comfortable with what they got from the European Central Bank on Thursday.
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DZ Bank launched InGen this week. The new medium term note (MTN) trading platform aims to simplify the reverse inquiry process.
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Münchener Hypothekenbank was the only financial institution to issue a euro bond this week, selling a senior non-preferred deal on Wednesday. The German lender attracted demand roughly similar to the bond's size of €250m, set from the start.
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Germany’s Salzgitter has closed a €350m-equivalent dollar and euro Schuldschein, with the steel products and tube maker blowing past its initial €200m launch amount.
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A new digital blockchain platform for promissory loan notes has launched, with four German banks hoping their offering will be able to jostle for a place in an increasingly crowded digital market.
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Sick, the German industrial sensor maker, has launched a €100m three tranche Schuldschein. Some investors claim recent Schuldschein issues from German issuers are priced to appeal only to cash-rich domestic accounts.
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K+S, the potash and salt producer, has refinanced its revolving credit facility a year early, to lock in favourable borrowing terms at it seeks to move back to positive free cashflow for the first time for more than five years.
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Denmark’s Bunker Holding has signed a multi tranche revolving credit facility totaling $1bn, as the shipping fuel and lubrication oils company prepares for a “paradigm shift” headed for its industry.
