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Spain’s Banco de Sabadell surpassed expectations with its first visit to the non-preferred senior asset class on Tuesday, tightening 35bp during the pricing process and taking away €1bn of new funding. -
Rabobank sold a 12 year non-preferred senior bond in euros on Monday, the longest dated offering that any bank has tried in a senior format so far this year.
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Royal Bank of Canada has wrought havoc with the traditional pecking order for Canadian financial institutions in the credit markets, beating a better-rated peer for spread amid a string of recent senior issuance out of the country in euros. Market participants took the stunning developments this week as clear proof for a long-standing belief: green funding is simply cheaper. Tyler Davies reports.
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Patience is a virtue for anyone looking to challenge decisions made during a bank resolution.
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ASR Nederland was more than 10 times subscribed for a new tier two in the euro market on Thursday, the proceeds of which will be used to finance its takeover of disability insurance specialist Loyalis.
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A tough quarter scuppered Goldman Sachs's strategic update but the bank places deeds before words and is already well advanced in its new strategy, writes David Rothnie
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Royal Bank of Canada stunned market participants with its first public euro offering of bail-inable senior debt on Wednesday, pricing the deal inside equivalent trades from Toronto-Dominion Bank and Bank of Nova Scotia. The trade was RBC’s first ever green bond.
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If the architects behind the complicated world of bank resolution and prudential capital regulation have proved one thing, it is that the devil is not always in the detail. Sometimes labels matter more.
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Royal Bank of Canada said on Tuesday that it was looking at the euro market for its first green senior unsecured bonds, at a time when issuers seem to be more in control of pricing than investors.
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Co-operative Bank managed to raise £200m of tier two capital this week, in its first bond sale since coming close to failing in 2017. A healthy coupon of 9.5% helped the UK lender to find the demand it needed, even if one investor said that there was still “not much to like” about its credit profile.
