Europe
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Dutch national energy company Tennet is preparing to sell the first ever green hybrid capital bond in a deal that bankers unanimously said will fly, but the mandate has sparked calls that the vanilla green market should become larger before the green product base becomes more varied, writes Michael Turner. -
Bankers around Europe are breathing easier on news that Geert Wilders will not be forming part of the next Dutch government. But why?
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The SSA market is “breathing a sigh of relief”, according to one SSA syndicate banker, as this week's hotly anticipated Netherlands election produced the result capital markets bankers were hoping for.
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A bold £2bn mandatorily exchangeable bond issue for Anil Agarwal, founder and chairman of Vedanta Resources, captured global headlines on Wednesday and Thursday as he used it to buy a stake of about 12% in Anglo American, the mining group.
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Each of the 10 companies that have launched offerings in the European high yield bond market since Monday had different reasons to schedule their deals this week, but were rewarded with the most issuer-friendly pricing yet. It cannot get better, bankers and investors warn borrowers.
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UBS jumped into the dollar market this week with its first deal of the year as spreads tightened following the Federal Reserve’s move to increase interest rates.
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The sterling market was red hot this week with public sector issuers hitting screens in force, despite a headline heavy calendar.
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The IPO of Innogy was voted Equity Capital Markets Deal of the Year and JP Morgan judged ECM Bank of the Year in GlobalCapital's 2016 Equity Capital Markets Awards, which were announced on Wednesday night at our second ECM Awards Dinner, held at the Banking Hall in London.
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Russian corporates continued to prove popular with dollar bond buyers this week as Gazprom returned to the currency after an absence of more than three years and Evraz saw good demand for both legs of its latest liability management exercise.
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