Germany
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GlobalCapital's latest information on forthcoming and planned corporate bond issues in the European market.
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Porsche AG, maker of Porsche sports cars, closed a green Schuldschein this week, with pricing and allocation set for Friday. The final size is rumoured to be €1bn, with an order book far exceeding that. -
Energie Baden-Wuerttemberg hit screens on Monday to sell a pair of green hybrid bonds, returning to the green bond market to follow up on its October 2018 debut.
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Fraport, which operates Frankfurt airport and has stakes in several other airports, has entered the Schuldschein market for a second time this year, with an initial target of €200m.
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The World Bank placed its first Hong Kong dollar deal of its 2019/2020 funding year last week. The supranational chose to link the private placement to the Hibor benchmark, a now little seen structure that was likely the result of a "very specific enquiry", according to one MTN banker away from the deal.
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Sterling is set to play a bigger part in the socially responsible bond market as a result of incoming reforms that are putting the pressure on UK pension funds to focus on environmental, social or governance (ESG) factors in their investments, writes Burhan Khadbai.
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The State of North Rhine Westphalia was flooded with demand for its 30 year euro benchmark this week as investors braced themselves for the European Central Bank’s meeting on Thursday, in which it laid down the groundwork for a rate cut in September and additional quantitative easing.
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Deutsche Kreditmarkt-Standards (DKS), a German industry body, held a conference call with Schuldschein participants on Thursday afternoon to discuss restructuring in the Schuldschein market, and whether there is a case for a standardised collective action clause.
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A treasury head at a German agency, which he helped set up from scratch, has left after nine years to return to the banking sector.
