Europe
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Swiss investors, who have shunned Austrian bank bonds for three years, have suddenly changed their minds and bought three deals in the last few weeks, with Bawag PSK the latest. An end to the wrangling over the resolution of Hypo Alpe Adria has been helpful, writes Silas Brown. -
Italian multi-utility company Hera made a rare visit to the euro market on Thursday as it issued a sub-benchmark 10 year bond that was over two times subscribed.
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Yield starved banks are redefining how the Schuldschein market operates, it was shown this week. In a market where investors and banks have historically lent alongside each other, the low ebb in European loans is sending banks to Schuldscheine in hordes and, in some cases, they are pricing out investors. Elly Whittaker reports.
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It was all going so well for Italy. Its entry to the 50 year bond club on Tuesday pulled in a monstrous €18.5bn of orders. But almost immediately the bond became tradeable, the market frothed with talk of the European Central Bank tapering QE, sending Eurozone periphery bonds into a tailspin to remind everyone just how much markets are in the grip of central bank policy. Lewis McLellan reports.
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Numerous press articles in recent years have predicted the death of single name credit default swaps. Onerous capital requirements, costly changes in market structure and alternative hedging tools have all been cited as factors driving the inexorable decline in the product.
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Bridgepoint-owned Pret A Manger and Civen-owned Ufinet both allocated dividend recapitalisations on Thursday, while another Bridgepoint-owned firm, Element Materials, released price talk on a proposed repricing of its buyout loans signed only in February.
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The return of vanilla senior issuance may be just around the corner, after FIG borrowers let the dust settle on last week’s Deutsche Bank-driven volatility.
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