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Deal rules and slow primary market make ramping up deals difficult
◆ Supranationals and agencies prepare to achieve the previously unthinkable ◆ Leveraged loans versus private credit and their effect on CLOs ◆ A new dawn for dollar covered bonds and UK equity market structure
◆ Schaeffler attracts €5.8bn peak book… ◆ …while SPIE finds €2.8bn of orders ◆ Strong demand allows for strong price moves
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Spreads on primary triple-A CLO paper have tightened to a new Covid-era low this week, with CIFC Asset Management pricing via Citigroup a $498.8m CLO at 135bps over Libor. -
The European Central Bank is overstepping the mark with its investment grade corporate bond buying and must start easing off, or it risks detaching the market from economic reality, market participants said this week. Mike Turner reports.
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Ford, the US car maker, offered investment grade bond investors a chance to dip into high yield on Tuesday. And its rival, Nissan Motor, is lining up a seven tranche behemoth bond issue that will create a euro curve out to eight years.
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Issuance in Europe’s high grade corporate market trended towards high beta names this week, with a spate of deals from riskier names, including the first outing for German fallen angel ZF Freidrichshafen since its downgrade.
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Wartchow heads to Pemberton — Barclays names permanent equities heads — Bonilla joins Kartesia
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Virgin Media started the autumn session in European leveraged finance in style with a five part offering to raise the cash for its joint venture with Telefónica’s O2 unit. The deal underscores how far capital markets have come since the dark days of April, when the £30bn ($38.9bn) mega merger was backed by an investment grade loan to insulate the tie-up from the effects of a prolonged downturn in leveraged credit, reports Owen Sanderson.
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