Europe
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Swedbank is the latest issuer to unveil a green bond framework, with a roadshow for the first deal to take place between Wednesday and Friday next week. -
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Regulators, bankers and lawyers converged on Paris this week to attend the first ever conference organised by the European Securities and Markets Authority. Held at The Westin Paris Hotel right by the Tuileries Garden, the event came during an important year for ESMA.
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Eurobank Ergasias has mandated leads for a roadshow, marketing a near replica transaction of National Bank of Greece’s (NBG) three year conditional pass-through that was issued last week.
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The scores have been counted and the results are in. The BondMarker voters have delivered their verdict on last week's crop of benchmarks, including a scintillating pair of deals from supranationals. Two deals from French agencies met with drastically different levels of approval from the BondMarker voters, but both fared better than Land NRW.
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With asset prices inflated to levels that would have seemed impossible a few years ago, capital market participants are looking forward to the European Central Bank’s (ECB’s) eventual exit from its quantitative easing (QE) programme with a mix of hope and dread, writes Lewis McLellan.
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A pair of public sector borrowers launched trades in the socially responsible investment (SRI) market this week, taking advantage of the dearth of green supply to land prices well inside their conventional curves.
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US and non-US issuers entered the dollar bond market in a busy week, including Banco Santander, which continued its US charm offensive with a $2.5bn three-part trade.
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