Europe

A pair of European agencies landed in euros on Tuesday, attracting huge books and tightening their spreads, indicating a promising backdrop for NRW.Bank’s green bond scheduled for Wednesday.

The UK Debt Management Office (DMO) tapped a 2065 line for £4bn on Tuesday, upping the size of the transaction because of “impressive quality of demand”.

Monday’s combination of heightened worries over North Korea and the Labor Day holiday in the US saw only one new issue in the European corporate bond market. However, with no new developments from the Korean peninsula overnight, five issuers decided to push ahead with trades on Tuesday.

On Tuesday, Telefonica printed the largest single tranche of the day, with a €1.25bn deal with a January 2028 maturity. Despite competing with three other corporate bond deals in the euro market, the deal built a €3bn order book and printed with a single digit new issue premium.

On Tuesday, pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline returned to the corporate bond market for the first time since November 2014, and its rarity value contributed to combined order books of over €5.5bn for the triple tranche deal.

Europe’s IPO market gained two more deals of very different flavours on Tuesday when Rovio, the Finnish developer of the Angry Birds mobile phone game, and Charter Court Financial Services, the UK specialist mortgage lender, both filed intention to float documents.

Two levfin issuers, Sebia and Refresco, this week added €3bn to an already large pipeline of euro and dollar-denominated leveraged loans being touted around a bustling European market. But some bankers are fretting that underwriters face little room for mistakes if pricing widens.

Banco di Desio e della Brianza attracted outstanding demand for its debut covered bond, reflecting its rarely seen juicy spread and a scarcity of Italian supply this year. At the same time investors were receptive to Raiffeisenlandesbank NiederÖsterreich-Wien's (RLB NÖ-Wien) first deal in two years.

Albaraka Turk, Turkey’s first participation, or Islamic, bank, kicked off the syndication of a $100m murabaha facility on Tuesday.

Nykredit Realkredit attracted demand of over €1.5bn for its debut syndicated covered bond this week, a deal which despite being issued in rare floating rate format was readily absorbed by a new diversified group of mainly bank treasury investors.

Swiss private banking group Julius Baer was about 30 times subscribed for its first additional tier one (AT1) offering in dollars on Tuesday, showing the strength of the Reg S dollar market at the start of September.

Yorkshire Building Society picked banks to arrange the sale of a new benchmark tier two on Tuesday, as it looked to follow a popular new senior issue from Credit Suisse in the sterling market.