Germany

Hamburg Commercial Bank is offering to buy back up to €1bn of its Pfandbrief notes, as the newly privatised German lender seeks to reduce its assets and liabilities in line with one another.

Another Germany-focused real estate firm is dipping into the high yield bond market. Peach Property is launching €250m of unsecured senior notes, following a successful bond issue by Demire. While Germany is on the brink of recession, its property market keeps breaking new records.

KfW returned to the euro market on Tuesday for a tap of its euro May 2027 green bond. The deal offered a small new issue concession at the final spread, as the euro SSA pipeline winds down in the final months of the year.

Caffil issued the tightest French 10 year of 2019 amid a flurry of other well received covered bonds issued on Tuesday by DZ Hyp, mBank and Santander UK. While the European Central Bank’s return to the market helped deals go well, it was not needed amid an improvement in risk appetite.

Large Schuldscheine are being lined up for the first quarter of next year, arrangers said, with investors reaching their lending limits for the year. But there are still deals numbering in the double digits to be done by Christmas.

KfW will come to market for a €1bn tap of its May 2027 green bond. The deal will bring the amount remaining in the issuer’s 2019 funding programme to €2bn. Bankers say that there are few significant deals in the pipeline and only limited appetite for pre-funding.

BMW Auto Finance (China) is planning a return to the auto loan ABS market next week with a Rmb8bn ($1.1bn) deal.

Australia & New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) is getting ready to offer FIG investors a very rare chance to purchase green bank capital in euros, with the issuer set to hit the road for a new tier two in November.

Austrian cellulose fibre maker Lenzing has launched a Schuldschein with a sustainability-linked pricing ratchet, just days before Italian infrastructure engineering firm Maire Tecnimont came with its own sustainability-linked deal..

Deutsche Bank will meet investors next week to market a structured covered bond, people familiar with the deal told GlobalCapital on Thursday. The bank will enjoy a material reduction in the cost of funding compared with senior preferred debt and will still be able to offer investors a big pick-up to Pfandbriefe, meaning the innovative deal has already sparked widespread interest from rival issuers and investors alike. Bill Thornhill reports.

German private equity firm Aurelius is preparing a high yield bond issue of up to €200m issue of senior unsecured five year floating rate notes in the Nordic market. Another investment group, Chinese Fosun, also tapped the markets with a €400m issue of unsecured senior notes.

Demand for covered bonds issued on Wednesday by Deutsche Kreditbank (DKB) and BPCE exploded towards the final hour of book building, as the European Central Bank placed crushingly large orders for the deals. Even though the granularity of the order books was good on this occasion, the central bank’s larger than expected presence was expected to displace real investors.