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Financial institutions triple issuance in the currency this year, while corporates make greater use of euro and sterling taps
Private taps offer issuers an alternative route through uncertain issuance windows due the Middle East conflict, bankers say
Higher coupons and steady rate expectations draw investors back into the currency
SSA issuers increase focus on PPs amid quieter period for public markets
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AGENCY borrowers — newly crowded out by the European Financial Stability Facility — are steeling themselves for more than Eu40bn of competing supply implicitly guaranteed by the eurozone’s reference sovereign, Germany.
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In what could become a growing trend for the Italian FIG market, Intesa Sanpaolo sold a pair of identical Eu125m one year puttable floating rate notes through Crédit Agricole on Wednesday, after self-placing a similar Eu288m two year deal on Monday.
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Moody’s has assigned a provisional foreign currency rating of A3 to CIMB Bank’s proposed $1bn multi-currency EMTN programme. The signing of the programme would make CIMB the first Malaysian financial institution to tap the European MTN market, according to data from Dealogic.
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Improved investor sentiment towards Spanish and Italian banks last week shows no sign of abating, with Iberian financial institutions continuing to issue large pieces of commercial paper to meet sizeable upcoming maturities, despite a growing volatility in interest rate and money market futures driving some investors to the sidelines.
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FMS Wertmanagement, the German agency set up to manage the unwanted assets of Hyporealestate Group, has signed a Eu40bn multi-currency ECP programme, arranged by Royal Bank of Scotland. Meanwhile, Erste Abwicklungsanstalt, the bad bank agency for WestLB, is finalising an MTN programme, due to be launched in the next few days.
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A busy public bond market, combined with an abnormally wide gap between public and private pricing levels, is keeping demand for financial institution MTNs lower than usual for this time of year, despite improved investor sentiment.