Euro
-
Spain drew nearly €30bn of orders for a new €6bn 10 year benchmark on Tuesday, as Cyprus tightened pricing by 20bp on a seven year deal.
-
The parent company of Caffil, the French public sector covered bond issuer, has finalised the first loan under its newly established export credit finance business. The Cover spoke to Caffil’s head of treasury and financial markets, Sami Gotrane, about the issuer’s prospective plans in the export finance business.
-
WL Bank enjoyed strong demand for its €250m 10 year covered bond tap on Tuesday, an increase that managed to provide investors with a positive yield. But with spreads in the secondary market tightening again on no flow, the positive yielding universe was quickly disappearing.
-
Spain is lining up its second 10 year euro benchmark of the year, as bankers responded to a question about market conditions with: “It’s game on.” -
The one and only euro benchmark Turkish covered bond issued by Vakifbank widened slightly on Monday but then more sharply on Wednesday following the attempted coup over the weekend. Covered bond investors said the episode would provide a good test case for emerging market covered bonds.
-
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce priced the first negative yielding non Eurozone covered bond and attracted a comfortably oversubscribed order book with a tiny new issue concession.
-
CaixaBank has announced a reorganization of its debt capital markets team, which will now be led by Ainhoa Landa — the former head of structured bonds syndicate. Landa will report to Ignacio Moliner, head of capital markets and corporate finance.
-
With an oversubscription ratio of more than five times, Deutsche Hypo’s tap, issued on Friday, should put to rest qualms that have hindered supply of negative yielding covered bonds since Berlin Hyp’s ground breaking deal four months ago.
-
-
-
-
Supply-starved investors pounced on new euro benchmarks from the European Stability Mechanism and Agence Française de Développement this week, the first since the UK’s Brexit vote.
