Europe

Delivery Hero, the German online food ordering marketplace, has returned to the equity-linked market six months after its debut to issue a jumbo €1.5bn dual-tranche convertible bond to fund M&A opportunities.

BMW Automotive Finance bagged Rmb8bn ($1.14bn) from a three tranche auto loan ABS transaction on Tuesday. The deal was priced tightly despite difficult market conditions in China.

Some parts of the market are talking about the benefits of ultra-short, money market debt that has a sustainability theme, while on Tuesday BBVA issued a perpetual green bond, albeit with a call. The viability of both these forms of debt shows that the common perception of green bonds is not quite true.

At the end of June GlobalCapital and DZ Bank brought together some of Germany’s leading public sector bond issuers to discuss the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on their capital markets activities. Four months after the crisis began to be felt in Germany, representatives of the country’s development banks and Länder have come through the initial panic and reaction stage and are now beginning to understand more fully the extent of the damage the disease has caused to the economy and just how much their day-to-day lives have changed.

The European Financial Stability Facility kicked off its third quarter funding in style as it raised 80% of its borrowing needs for the quarter flat to its sister issuer’s curve. Elsewhere in the euro market on Tuesday, Cyprus saw decent demand as it tapped its 2024s and 2040s.

UK home emergency and repair company Homeserve has entered the US private placement market, according to sources, looking for at least £125m.

Investors piled into KfW’s first dollar benchmark in six months on Tuesday, allowing the issuer to break the order book record for SSA dollar benchmarks.

France hit screens on Tuesday to announce a new long-dated inflation-linked benchmark at a time when market participants are bracing for the return of inflation due to the vast amount of monetary stimulus and spending by governments in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Equity capital markets are gearing up for a busy autumn and UK companies have been at the forefront of activity in Europe since the coronavirus pandemic began. Bankers and investors have said they fear the disruption a second wave of Covid-19 and volatility surrounding November's US election could bring, but they should not forget either that the UK is edging towards a no-deal Brexit at the end of 2020.

Japan’s Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co has sold €125m of shares in Talanx, the German business-to-business insurer, after the stock rallied by more than 50% from its post-crash lows in March.

Lower overcollateralisation (OC), tighter spreads and access to the ultra-long end of the curve are likely to cause some Dutch covered bond banks to reconsider whether it is still viable to issue conditional pass through (CPT) deals or follow NN Bank, which recently switched from to soft bullet issuance.

The European Central Bank has put the familiar topic of bank consolidation back into the spotlight, after its supervisory arm made clear last week that it did not want to stand in the way of well-designed deals.