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◆ Deal starts with 'intentionally' lower new issue concession than peers ◆ Slower book building may influence this week's tier two issuance ◆ Pre-funding ahead of French elections results in desired €750m size
French bank is marketing the only two deals in ABS primary
Revival of high LTV mortgage lending is creating an opportunity for more SRT and deconsolidation transactions
◆ Austrian lender's biggest capital deal for more than five years ◆ Higher yielding offering piques investor interest ◆ Return to subordinated green issuance
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BBVA was marketing an additional tier one bond on Wednesday, making use of the favourable conditions that other issuers have found for similar instruments in the dollar market, while BNP Paribas, Bank of Nova Scotia and Bawag kept euro investors busy. -
KBC only needed to offer a slim new issue premium to attract €2bn of demand for a new tier two bond this week. The deal pricing was squeezed by 20bp from initial price thoughts, resembling senior deals from other issuers.
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Investors were clambering over one another to get a piece of a perpetual bond from Swiss Re on Tuesday, as insurance companies like ASR Nederland and Beazley began lining up deals for the autumnal issuance window.
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Europe's bond market reopened for the autumn issuance season this week — but it is a new bond market. The summer's queasy bout of bearishness has pushed government bond yields to unprecedented lows and these are now for the first time being tested as a platform for private sector bond issuance.
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Market participants expect more banks will now want to print Kangaroos after investors on a search for yield poured into UBS's additional tier one (AT1) deal on Tuesday. The syndication, which surprised those involved after it managed to shave 75bp off its initial pricing guidance and attract A$4bn ($2.71bn) of orders, suggested a market ripe for a deal spree.
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Swedbank was supported with 14 times as much demand as it needed for a $500m additional tier one bond on Thursday, helped by falling interest rates in the US. The deal could be the first of many from European banks, which are facing up to a busy call schedule for AT1s in 2020.
