Europe

Swedish krona SSA volumes are at a record high this year, spurred on by a handful of jumbo supranational deals sold at wider spreads during the second quarter. However, the market has since tightened, and bankers expect it to have a more muted end to 2020.

Despite robust redemption volumes, the outlook for covered bond supply over the remainder of 2020 is poor with some bankers expecting no more than a dozen euro deals.

Crédit Agricole and Nykredit Realkredit were able to push aggressively on pricing in the additional tier one (AT1) market this week, as they took advantage of favourable supply and demand dynamics.

Home Reit will become the first London-listed real estate investment trust dedicated to providing accommodation for the homeless, following the successful completion of its £240.5m IPO on Thursday.

A top-level reshuffle suggests that Barclays chief executive Jes Staley is not going anywhere, but raises fresh questions about whether the bank’s top-five ambitions are achievable, writes David Rothnie.

Unédic returned for another social benchmark on Thursday, adding to the slew of successful French agency SRI-themed paper.

KfW could be set to hit screens with a euro benchmark next week in what may be its final public deal in the currency this year, according to bankers. The bond is likely to come with a seven year maturity, a tenor that the Free State of Saxony struggled with on Thursday, finishing with the book only around half covered.

Kaspi, the Kazakh fintech and e-commerce firm, has attracted enough orders to cover the books on its London IPO on the first day, according to sources close to the deal.

The European Central Bank bought more covered bonds in September than it has done for months and still faces a mammoth task to replace deals due to be redeemed this year. With eligible issuance unlikely to much exceed €10bn, a squeeze of epic proportions is in store.

Kazakhstan’s state-owned oil company KazMunayGas raised a dollar bond on Wednesday, after what some investors described as a lengthy roadshow. KMG is the latest in a string of Kazakh borrowers that have come to capital markets over the last year to raise funding as investors develop an appetite for the central Asian country.

A group of some of the UK's biggest asset managers, professional bodies and banks are supporting a proposal for an SRI-themed UK sovereign debt product to deliver environmental and social benefits as part of the country’s recovery from the pandemic.

Korian, the French nursing home operator, has launched a €400m rights issue to buy Inicea, a French operator of psychiatry clinics.