Ireland

Ryanair completed a non-pre-emptive share placing on Thursday evening to strengthen its balance sheet to withstand the next phase of the Covid-19 pandemic and to take advantage of growth opportunities. Despite analysts not thinking the company needed extra capital, sources said the company's CEO Michael O'Leary made a compelling case to investors for the need to boost its balance sheet.

Ireland's Dalata Hotel Group was in the market with a 19.9% accelerated share placing on Tuesday, a move the company said would give it the firepower to take advantage of growth opportunities stemming from the Covid-19 pandemic.

Mediolanum International Funds Ltd (MIFL), the international asset management arm of Italy’s Mediolanum has appointed a new portfolio manager for its European equities team in Dublin.

Germany is calling for bids for state-owned Depfa Bank, the once prolific issuer of Irish and German covered bonds whose parent, Hypo Real Estate, was taken into public ownership as a result of the 2008 financial crisis. There is little chance, however, that the transaction could see the issuer return to the covered bond market.

Trading levels given are bid-side spreads versus mid-swaps and/or an underlying benchmark and bid-yields from the close of business on Monday, June 22. The source for secondary trading levels is ICE Data Services.

Trading levels given are bid-side spreads versus mid-swaps and/or an underlying benchmark and bid-yields from the close of business on Monday, June 15. The source for secondary trading levels is ICE Data Services.

AIB Group priced a €625m additional tier one (AT1) bond in euros this week, following several volatile days of trading for the asset class. The deal surpassed expectations in terms of size and pricing, having been run along with a tender offer for one of the Irish lender’s existing AT1s.

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There were no issues of competing supply on Tuesday as three eurozone sovereigns amassed big order books, buoyed by last week’s expansion of the Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme (Pepp).

Greece and Ireland are set to test the primary bond market this week, returning to one buoyed by a fresh injection of confidence after the European Central Bank expanded its Pndemic Emergency Purchase Programme (Pepp) last week.

Bank of Ireland this week issued the first additional tier one (AT1) capital instrument since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, minimising the execution risk by borrowing from the ECM playbook and wall-crossing the deal ahead of launch.

Belgium and Ireland announced increases to their 2020 funding requirements this week, as they look to counter the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.