Germany

Books closed on the IPO of Siemens Healthineers, the healthcare technology division of Siemens, on Thursday lunchtime, with the base deal valued at €3.65bn and the company at €28bn.

The day after a jumbo corporate bond issue is often a quiet one for new issuance as investors digest their allocations and assess the impact on secondary spreads. But after Sanofi's €8bn offering on Wednesday, Thursday was another bumper day.

Deutsche Hypo followed other German lenders into the UK market to price its first covered bond in sterling on Thursday. The deal was priced just 7bp inside where SEB issued an unsecured FRN on the same day.

Vonovia, the German housing company, issued €2.1bn of bonds on Thursday to finance its €5.2bn acquisition of Austrian peer Buwog, which was announced in December.

WL Bank was unable to secure much private demand for a €500m 10 year on Thursday, yet managed to get over the finishing line with much some help from the Eurosystem, though it was less than might have been expected.

KfW built a towering book in the five year part of the euro curve on Wednesday with a deal that SSA bankers away from the trade said probably attracted heavy French demand. The agency’s choice of printing just €4bn from a book of over €8bn should ensure a tightening of its curve, they added.

The primary market was quiet on Wednesday, but activity looks set to improve as a trio of issuers from Poland and Germany mandated joint lead managers for benchmark covered bonds — to be issued in euros and sterling on Thursday.

The IPO of Siemens Healthineers, the healthcare technology division of Siemens, is covered throughout its revised price range, according to a banker involved in the transaction.

Tikehau Capital, the French alternative investment manager, has committed a €250m order for the IPO of DWS Group and has initiated discussions on potential cooperation between the two firms, including on alternative asset management distribution.

Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen (Helaba) has returned to the Pfandbrief market for the second time this year to issue a dual tranche offering, with the shorter five year part pricing 3bp wider than a six year launched a few weeks ago.

Morgan Stanley issued a €400m bond on Monday, with warrants over Daimler shares, in a trade designed to give equity linked investors some much needed paper in a popular name.

Bayerische Landesbank (BayernLB) issued a €500m seven year in line with recent German Pfandbrief this week, but with a generous pick-up of 5bp compared with its own more illiquid curve.