Europe
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MUFG has appointed Holly Villiers to a new role heading corporate banking for UK, Ireland and the Nordic countries. -
Fund flows into emerging market bond funds hit a 76 week high in the week ending January 12, according to EPFR data, culminating a week of strong primary markets that a wobble in US Treasuries could do nothing to derail.
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The International Finance Corp has appointed a new head of funding, following the departure of Ben Powell last October.
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Volkswagen Financial Services has raised €600m through a Schuldschein placed with a single investor. The benchmark, which took the market by surprise, left many with more questions than answers.
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Market participants hoping for a surge of large leveraged buyout financings in 2018 have been rewarded already by the arrival of seveal deals. One of them is the funding to finance French engineering services firm Altran's purchase of its peer Aricent.
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Issuers printed a slew of benchmarks in dollars, euros and sterling last week as the SSA market roared into action. Read on to see whether the first deals of the year won favour with our voters.
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Price sensitivity is becoming a material theme in covered bond deals issued this week, and the first Canadian covered bond of 2018, issued by Bank of Nova Scotia on Friday, was no exception.
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Íslandsbanki issued a six year non-call five senior deal in the euro market on Friday, as La Mondiale opened books on a sub-benchmark callable deal.
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Sparebank 1 Boligkreditt has mandated lead managers for a roadshow to market it first green covered bond. The news comes amid German press articles suggesting lawmakers in Luxembourg are set to propose a green covered bond framework. BayernLB is also lining up a vanilla 10 year Pfandbrief for execution on Monday.
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European rates markets suffered some volatility this week, but on a smaller scale than that experienced in the US. This did cause some widening of secondary spreads, but the sentiment around primary issuance has stayed constructive.
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The Chinese government contemplates RMB-denominated IPOs for mainland companies fundraising for Belt and Road projects, foreign ownership of Chinese bonds goes up in December, and premier Li Keqiang indicates the economy grew by 6.9% in 2017.
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