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Deutsche Bank was looking to take advantage of its shrinking funding costs this week, raising $1.6bn in the dollar market with a pair of five year senior trades. -
Typically, sub-benchmark size deals have to pay a premium to compensate investors for a lack of liquidity. However, with levels of demand meaning all deals are multiple times oversubscribed, these smaller deals are pricing in line with their larger peers.
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Dollar deals large and small across the curve from SSA issuers rare and frequent pounded on screens through this week but despite the supply pressure, not one cracked. Conditions are so strong that some SSA bankers believe borrowers should look to pre-fund for next year — although they admit they might have a hard time convincing the sell side.
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The trend for corporate issuers in Europe in 2017 has been to sell bonds with longer tenors. However, among this week’s deals were three short dated floating rate notes, which all garnered huge demand.
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KommuneKredit and Erste Abwicklungsanstalt rounded out this week’s dollar issuance in what has become typical fashion for trades over the last few days — oversubscribed books and tightened pricing. But KommuneKredit’s deal featured a novel aspect that SSA bankers hope other issuers will embrace.
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Leveraged loan issuance is set to outpace sales of new high yield bonds with a surge this year, pushed by a varied array of borrowers seeking not just tighter margins on old debt, such as US chemical group Angus this week, but also funding for acquisitions, as with Nordic travel operator Etraveli.
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The SSA dollar juggernaut is set to roll into a third day, with two deals on screens for Thursday’s business. Investor appetite shows no sign of letting up, as the two deals priced on Wednesday drew large books — as was seen with a host of trades a day earlier.
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Several of November’s IPOs in Europe have taken hits in the aftermarket, continuing October’s trend of recently floated companies’ shares trading down.
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In October, German chemicals company BASF announced it had agreed to buy parts of Bayer’s seed and non-selective herbicide businesses for €5.9bn, all in cash. On Wednesday it started to fund that with a €3bn triple tranche bond sale.
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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.
