Europe
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The highly anticipated IPO of iZettle, the Swedish payments company, has been called off, as PayPal has struck a deal to buy the company. -
Investors dumped BTPs this week as far from market-friendly plans emerged from talks this week between the Five Star Movement and the Northern League, which looked set to form a government as GlobalCapital went to press. But there were still some notes of optimism as Italy sold the latest line of its BTP Italia product with little fuss and bankers said BTP yields were still very far from crisis levels.
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A populist coalition poised to take power in Italy sent shudders across markets this week, with the concerns going well beyond BTPs and Italian corporates to spill into other countries and raise questions over the future of eurozone capital markets unity. Craig McGlashan, Jasper Cox and Sam Kerr report.
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Big moves in US Treasury yields, swap spreads and the euro/dollar and euro/sterling basis swaps put paid to some dollar issuance this week as some borrowers held back and others tapped different currencies. But a pair of Swedish names did get deals done, and rates started to move back into more favourable areas, suggesting volumes could pick up again next week.
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Volatile market conditions have made some issuers think twice about approaching the primary market, after Banque Fédérative du Crédit Mutuel and Santander Consumer Finance found it difficult to build any momentum for their deals this week.
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The UK Debt Management Office again broke a couple of syndication records as it extended the Gilt curve on Tuesday, but onlooking bankers felt the real story was how the underlying Gilt curve behaved through the deal.
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The euro market got off to a fine start this week as a supranational rarely seen in euros appeared at five years and a mainstay of the market pulled off another successful trade. But later in the week, cracks began to show.
