France
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More socially responsible investment paper from public sector issuers keeps arriving on screens, but despite the deluge, borrowers are still managing super-tight spreads and selling healthily subscribed deals. And there’s still more to come. -
The European high yield bond pipeline was stuffed with an array of mainly sub-benchmark deals this week, after issuance volume hit a historic high.
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The City of Paris printed a sustainability bond on Thursday, shaving several basis points from the spread during execution thanks to a healthily oversubscribed book.
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The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) managed to pull its spread in by 6bp from price guidance on its six year green bond issue today, attracting a heavily oversubscribed book full of investors seemingly ready to buy at any price.
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Excelitas and Axilone have added to the list of leveraged buyouts catching the attention of the European market amid a busy stream of loan repricings.
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Public sector borrowers have crammed more dollar deals into Tuesday than are sometimes seen in a week. But far from suffering from too much choice, investors gobbled up everything on offer — and bankers expect them to do just the same for two deals on Wednesday’s menu.
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The loan funding for CDPQ and Ardian’s acquisition of a stake in Alvest, the unrated French manufacturer of aeroplane parts, was allocated among a "limited" number of investors on Tuesday, amid growing demand for small and mid-sized credits.
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Compagnie de Financement Foncier (CFF) this week issued one of the most oversubscribed French covered bonds in years with demand boosted by the long tenor, small deal size and positive spread. At the same time, SEB found good demand, even though it was issuing the tenth 10 year covered bond since September.
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BNP Paribas set a 10 year call period on a new $750m additional tier one (AT1) trade on Tuesday, as the French bank looked to lock down an attractive cost of capital for as long as it could following an impressive month of performance for the asset class. Spain's BBVA quickly looked to follow suit.
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Banque Fédérative du Crédit Mutuel (BFCM) opened books on a new €500m 10 year bullet tier two on Tuesday, giving investors a rare chance to add exposure to the asset class in the primary market, following an impressive rally in 2017.
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Rentenbank will tap a resurgent long end dollar market on Tuesday, alongside a rare appearance in the currency from the Canadian sovereign in fives and a French agency in threes. This is only the second time in nearly two and a half years that issuers have peppered the whole of the dollar curve on the same day.
