Italy
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Italy has hired banks to tap its 2.8% March 2067 BTPs, as the week's supply of long term euro debt shows little sign of abating. -
Italian banks rushed to make use of favourable market conditions this week, with Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena and UBI Banca bringing new deals and Fineco Bank lining up an additional tier one (AT1). The window opened after the EU and the Italian government settled their scrap over the latter's budget targets, but market participants fear it won't stay open for long. Daivd Freitas reports.
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Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena was selling senior debt in euros on Thursday and UBI Banca was marketing tier two bonds, after the pair came rushing into the market to take advantage of a favourable backdrop for Italian credits.
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Fineco Bank is lining up the sale of a €200m additional tier one (AT1) bond after recently becoming independent from UniCredit — a deal that will make it only the fourth Italian issuer to raise capital in the asset class.
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Energean Oil and Gas, the Greek exploration company listed on the London Stock Exchange, won strong investor support on Thursday morning for a transaction backing a new M&A deal.
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UniCredit and Intesa Sanpaolo printed €3bn of new debt this week, almost doubling the amount sold by Italian banks this month. Around €6.5bn of bonds have been sold in June, making it the largest amount of Italian bank bonds sold in a single month since early 2014.
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UniCredit brushed aside any volatility in the broader Italian capital markets to issue its second senior transaction in as many weeks on Wednesday, getting away without paying a premium to its investors.
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Mediobanca attracted strong demand on Monday for a long seven year Obbligazioni Bancarie Garantite (OBG), which offered an eye-catching yield despite pricing well through BTPs. The deal emerged as the short end of the covered bond curve plunged deeper into negative yielding territory.
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UniCredit made the unusual decision of adding a one year call option to a preferred senior bond on Tuesday, nodding towards the bond’s potential value as total loss-absorbing capacity (TLAC). The Italian bank won strong support on a day when dovish central bank comments were fuelling a big rally in the value of risk assets.
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Giovanni Tria, Italy’s minister of economy and finance, rebuffed the chances of a controversial ‘Mini BOT’ financial instrument coming into effect, as he gave a keynote address at the start of Euromoney's Global Borrowers and Bond Investors Forum in London on Tuesday.
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Aegon Bank and Banco BPM each hit the euro market on Friday and launched €500m of debt in senior formats, following a week of prosperous conditions and successful deals.
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