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The era of pure-play private equity is over. Banks are pulling different divisions together to serve the complex needs of global asset managers
Specialist moves after 18 years in the market
New dangers are making deals harder to do, but pricing for the haves is still tight
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The Federal Reserve is unlikely to take US interest rates into negative territory, preferring to embark on another round of quantitative easing to stave off a recession, speakers said at ABS East on Tuesday. -
French laundry firm Elis launched a dual tranche bond issue on Tuesday, achieving a coupon of just 1% for a high yield-rated issue, and stacking up a book of over €2bn.
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Metro Bank’s failed senior non-preferred bond is rated BB+, squarely in high yield territory. But while corporates with this rating print at ever tighter yields, Metro couldn’t get its deal away even at 7.5%. Nobody expects the rating agencies to be in line with the market, but sometimes the gulf is yawningly wide.
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Shares in EQT, the Swedish private equity firm, popped 25% on day one after its IPO was priced on the Nasdaq Stockholm on Tuesday — after what sources called a “targeted” IPO process.
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Natixis has become the first bank to introduce a green weighting factor to its internal capital model, so that the way it prices loans is skewed to favour environmentally sound assets and disadvantage polluting ones. The ground-breaking move brings to fruition an 18 month project and anticipates what some believe may one day be demanded by regulators.
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Two Chinese companies tapped dollar bond investors on Monday. One of the most active issuers this year, Zhenro Properties Group, came out with an aggressively priced $300m transaction, while a district-level government financing vehicle sold its debut offshore deal.
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