Europe
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The Schuldschein market is booming, despite the credit setbacks it has suffered this year from struggling borrowers. -
The votes are in and three high quality issuers from last week's slew of public sector benchmarks are featured in this week's breakdown of the BondMarker results.
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Guarantor: Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia
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A tremendously supportive SSA market brushed off Thursday’s European Central Bank (ECB) meeting, printing all the way up to the morning of the press conference by bank president Mario Draghi, writes Lewis McLellan.
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As the European Central Bank meeting suspended euro issuance on Thursday, British Land took the opportunity to grab UK investors’ attention with its first senior bond for 11 years. The £300m 12 year deal followed Tuesday’s £250m seven year transaction from Total, which had an order book of around £600m.
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Nationwide Building Society came out of nowhere to tap its rare and very popular issue of core capital deferred shares (CCDS) this week, piquing the interest of a good many bank credit investors. Nearly every building society can get along nicely without this innovative substitute for equity, but Nationwide’s efforts to keep the product relevant could well make it a viable option for the rest of the mutual sector, writes Tyler Davies.
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On Thursday night, Prime Ventures, the UK venture capital firm, launched the first block trade in Takeaway.com shares since the Dutch takeaway delivery company's IPO in September 2016.
