Goldman Sachs
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Wobbles in eurozone government bond secondaries this week failed to deter a strong showing from a pair of public sector issuers in primary on Tuesday. Unédic found strong demand and tightened from guidance on its longest dated benchmark ever, while Austria broke a series of records with a 10 year euro benchmark. -
The pace of borrowing has slackened for public sector borrowers as Easter approaches but a few are still out hunting for second quarter funding.
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Unédic and Austria have announced that they will sell euro benchmarks at the long end of the curve on Tuesday.
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Deutsche Bank has successfully completed its fourth capital raising since the financial crisis, as investors backed CEO John Cryan's turnround plan with a 98.9% take-up rate.
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McDonald’s has returned to the MTN market after a year-long hiatus, raising €500m with a two year floater via Goldman Sachs.
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Guarantor: Financial Market Stabilisation Fund of the Federal Republic of Germany
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The palette of socially responsible investment bonds is expanding. Two borrowers made SRI debuts this week with a social inclusion bond and a sustainability bond, while a third has announced its intention to follow suit.
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FMS Wertmanagement took advantage of the dearth of supply in short dated euro paper to score an extremely tight price for its €1.5bn November 2020 benchmark on Thursday.
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Ant Financial subsidiary Alipay (Hong Kong) Holding has launched a $3bn debut syndication via a nine-member bookrunner group. The strong showing at the top is driven by opportunities to cross-sell higher fee-generating products such as private banking, equity advisory and underwriting services to the Alibaba Group-affiliated borrower, reports Shruti Chaturvedi.
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Saudi high yield issuer Dar Al-Arkan nipped in ahead of its sovereign to raise a $500m sukuk, strong scarcity value drove demand and enabled the issuer to increase the size of the trade from the planned $300m.
