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Tightening absolute and relative valuations have raised some concerns, but FIG assets remain in vogue thanks to higher rates
Diverse US senior FIG issuance jostles with perpetual and tier two capital from foreign and domestic banks
◆ Infrequent issuers achieve tight pricing... ◆ ...but lose a third of orders ◆ Investors may demand more NIP on deals from next week
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Funding across all parts of the capital structure is available with issuers likely to prioritise unsecured borrowing
With masses to fund and spreads super-tight, banks will race to market, but central banks are expected to tighten
Banks could rush to issue as fast as possible, taking advantage of remarkably tight spreads
Growing pipeline and fiercer competition had threatened to shake the darling bonds of May
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Danske Bank was marketing a preferred senior bond on Tuesday, taking swift advantage of recent changes in Denmark that will allow banks to use these instruments to count towards their regulatory debt requirements. -
Helaba and OP Corporate Bank each took a plunge into the preferred senior bond market on Tuesday, with spreads in the asset class having outperformed other bank funding products in recent weeks.
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HSBC Canada is set to become the third Canadian bank to issue a dollar covered bond this year, mandating leads for a three year transaction on Tuesday. Given a strong secondary market performance, HSBC Canada should be able to price its deal a lot tighter than its predecessors.
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A strong and growing deposit base, an active private placement market and sizeable proportion of prefunding has put the Pfandbrief banks in a strong liquidity position, the chief executive officer of the Association of German Pfandbrief Banks (VDP), Jens Tolckmitt, told GlobalCapital in an interview on Tuesday covering a wide range of other topics such as real estate values, the mortgage lending value and Basel III’s output floor.
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The prospect of switching out of Pfandbriefe exposed to a high proportion of foreign commercial real estate and into higher-yielding, and more liquid, Scandinavian covered bonds exposed to domestic loan portfolios that are less affected by the coronavirus, is a tempting choice. But the protection Pfandbriefe offer investors and the scarce supply outlook means spreads on the product will remain supported, said bankers on Monday.
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Plenum Investments, a catastrophe bond fund, is broadening its portfolio to include tier one and tier two debt issued by insurance companies. It is seeking to offer investors a higher risk-return option, and the announcement of the new fund comes at a time when spreads on subordinated insurance debt have widened.
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