Germany
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Pfandbrief borrowers rarely issue sterling deals of more than £250m, so when LBBW priced a £750m transaction with demand of £1.4bn this week, alarm bells were ringing. The astounding wall of money chasing the safest of safe assets may say as much about the state of the market as it does about the value of the deal itself. -
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A supranational dollar deal ran away with April’s top spot in BondMarker, outstripping the rest of the table by a good margin and clocking in as the third most highly rated deal of the year.
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Daimler, the German car manufacturer, has raised more than €7bn equivalent from three different corporate bond markets within two weeks of announcing its quarterly results on April 27. The sterling market was its focus on Wednesday and it received as strong a response as it did in the other two sectors.
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Kartesia, the European direct lender based in London, has provided unitranche funding to Latvian glass coatings company GroGlass. As larger direct lenders are not active in the region, Kartesia and other smaller institutions see an opportunity in their absence.
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On Wednesday, German chemicals supplier Lanxess found a surprising lack of demand for its first corporate bond issue since September 2016. Onlookers suggested this is was not a good sign with a heavy pipeline building for future weeks.
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At £750m, the debut sterling covered bond issued by LBBW on Wednesday was by far the largest ever of its kind sold by a European bank, with the trade attracting demand that was off the scale compared with anything that had previously been issued in the currency.
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Daimler, the German car manufacturer, has raised more than €7bn equivalent from three different corporate bond markets within two weeks of announcing its quarterly results on April 27. The sterling market was its focus on Wednesday.
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The Dutch State Treasury Agency will clear its interest rate swaps at the clearing arm of German derivatives bourse Eurex, it was revealed on Tuesday.
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With the deal flow in the Schuldschein market turning to more of a deal drip, participants are taking the spare time to clean up the shop floor.
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Covered bond deals issued on Tuesday by Deutsche Bank and Hypo Oberösterreich offered concessions of less than 2bp, illustrating that spreads have stabilised. With supply likely to remain low over the next few weeks, the more supportive backdrop should persist.
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BondMarker voters scored three deals last week, including the European Financial Stability Facility’s last helping of funding for the second quarter and an arbitrage style trade by KfW. Read on to see how the deals were received.
