Germany
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Deutsche EuroShop, the German property company, completed an 8.7% capital increase as an accelerated sale on Tuesday evening, raising €165m to finance the acquisition of the Olympia Center, one of the largest shopping malls in the Czech Republic.
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P&M Notebook
If you were an enthusiastic participant in any of the last three post-crisis Deutsche Bank rights issues, you might be starting to feel a little jaded. That would be a very reasonable position. -
Prices of Deutsche Bank’s euro additional tier one (AT1) bonds leapt higher on Monday, after management approved payment of its additional tier one coupons in 2017 and announced plans to raise €8bn of new capital via a rights issue.
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Deutsche Bank confirmed over the weekend that it was preparing an €8bn rights issue, alongside a fresh strategic overhaul that includes a partial IPO of its asset management division and the reintegration of Postbank.
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BASF launched an innovative $600m bond with warrants on Thursday that may go some way to solving some of the disadvantages of the equity-neutral structure that has become popular with investment grade CB issuers.
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US President Donald Trump’s first speech to Congress, a remarkable switch in Federal Reserve rate expectations and swap spreads falling from their early week highs all failed to derail a stellar week for public sector dollar issuance. More trades are expected to come next week, before the market quiets ahead of the Fed’s next rate decision and a Dutch general election where the far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) is expected to perform well.
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DG Hyp enjoyed solid demand for a long nine year Pfandbrief deal this week as, despite the measly new issue concession, it offered an unusually high pick-up against Bunds.
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Swedish Export Credit Corporation on Thursday added another cracking deal to a super strong week for dollar issuance, as FMS Wertmanagement lined up to take benchmark supply in the currency into Friday.
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NRW.Bank will be the next SSA borrower to tap the euro market, after two eurozone sovereigns raised a combined €11.4bn through auctions on Thursday, making the most of a week largely free from political volatility.
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After a month of much slower supply, increasingly desperate covered bond investors clamoured to buy a long nine year Hypothekenpfandbrief issued on Wednesday by DG Hyp. Though the bonds offered little new issue concession, interest was also boosted by the deal’s hefty spread over Bunds.
