Finland
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The newly established mortgage issuing subsidiary of Nordea Bank has mandated leads to roadshow its first deal from its Finnish programme. -
Finnish construction company YIT has completed a €200m deal with six core banks. The company saw one original lender replaced in an otherwise unchanged syndicate.
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DNA Ltd, Finland’s third largest mobile phone operator, has decided after a strategic review to embark on a second attempt at an IPO, more than three years after shareholders voted against going public.
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Valmet — Segro — Ecom — Aluminium Bahrain — Morpho
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Valmet, the Finnish technological services company, has refinanced a €200m facility first signed in May 2013. The company swapped two of the original lenders with new banks.
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A $3.5bn dual-tranche borrowing to back Tencent Holdings' acquisition of a stake in mobile gaming company Supercell, has been allocated. Three Chinese mandated lead arrangers and bookrunners held on to 60% of the loan at the end of general syndication.
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Finland’s largest private lessor, VVO Group, sold its second euro bond on Monday, with orders coming from Nordic and, for the first time, other European investors.
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The covered bond pipeline grew this week as Ibercaja and BNP Paribas Fortis mandated leads for roadshows and Nordea signalled it could be ready to return soon.
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Hannele Pokka, the Finnish minister for the environment said, in an exclusive interview with GlobalCapital, that she believes the ratification of the Paris Agreement, the first ever universal, legally binding climate accord struck in 2015, will spur on the green bond market’s development.
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Nordea Bank Finland has been dissolved and its mortgage bank business has been transferred to a new covered bond issuing entity, suggesting it could be ready to return to the covered bond market after an absence of exactly one year.
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Nordic telecoms company TeliaSonera has signed a €1.5bn five year credit facility with thirteen banks, refinancing a seven year deal signed in 2010.
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