Finland
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A glut of short end dollar issuance this week is set to ramp up on Thursday, after a pair of rare names in the currency mandated on Wednesday. The trades will follow a strong showing from Finnvera after the Finnish agency — also an uncommon name in dollars — printed its largest ever trade in the currency. -
Finnvera will on Wednesday enter a searing market for three year dollars, following a similar trade from Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten that rounded off the Dutch agency’s dollar benchmark funding for the year.
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One borrower took advantage of an excellent backdrop to scoop up its first green funding in euros at an attractive level on Tuesday, while a second issuer is lining up to follow suit in dollars.
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Three sub-investment grade borrowers printed deals in the high yield corporate bond market on Thursday using different tenors to raise a combined €1.06bn.
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Strong short end dollar demand led a host of issuers to print tight deals this week, including one debut. Investor appetite is expected to stay strong, but bankers are sceptical that there will be much supply.
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A new name for the SSA market hit screens on Monday, picking three banks to run a dollar five year transaction. The borrower will share the market with dollar trades from Dexia Crédit Local and Finland.
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The votes are in and three high quality issuers from last week's slew of public sector benchmarks are featured in this week's breakdown of the BondMarker results.
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Nordea announced on Wednesday it would move its administrative headquarters from Sweden to Finland, allowing it to submit to supervision by Europe’s Single Supervisory Mechanism.
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After the US public holiday on Monday restricted trading, the equity block trades market in EMEA reopened spectacularly this week, with a rush of large deals from across the region.
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Europe’s IPO market gained two more deals of very different flavours on Tuesday when Rovio, the Finnish developer of the Angry Birds mobile phone game, and Charter Court Financial Services, the UK specialist mortgage lender, both filed intention to float documents.
