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Despite the boost in demand, overall unsecured supply still lags behind 2025, with the bulk of recent supply coming in covered bonds
Foreign banks keep Swiss market busy as issuance slows
Observers blame slower bookbuilding on deal-specific factors but others see warning shots for whole market
Late Labor Day this year and mid-September FOMC will constrain September issuance window
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Korea Development Bank made a billion-dollar outing in the global bond market, and got away with offering very little premium to investors wooed by its safe haven status. -
Sparebank 1 Østlandet priced €500m of debt in senior preferred format at a spread of 67bp over mid-swaps this week — 8bp tighter than the initial price talk. The issuer is not a frequent visitor to the primary market, so it had to pay a higher premium than other borrowers, according to a banker away from the deal.
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Metro Bank had to cancel its plans to sell its debut non-preferred senior bond on Monday as investors focused on the risks overhanging its business. The UK challenger bank's inability to access the market, despite offering a 7.5% coupon, raises important questions ahead of a looming deadline for it to meet the minimum requirements for own funds and eligible liabilities (MREL).
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Investors bid a warm welcome to a heap of new bonds from financial institutions this week, spurred on by the knowledge that the European Central Bank would soon be back as one of the biggest buyers in the market. Bill Thornhill and Tyler Davies report.
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It has been an explosive week in the sterling market, with foreign and domestic names raising £2.9bn of debt on the back of £13.05bn of combined demand in the space of just three days. But there are more big tests for sterling funders in near future, with a bond market comeback for the UK’s Metro Bank being chief among them.
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Italian banks from across the spectrum of credit quality have accessed debt capital markets this week, as they enjoy funding costs that might not have seemed possible in the middle of the term of the country’s previous government.
