NatWest Markets
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The Berkeley Group, one of the UK’s biggest home builders, has mandated for a green bond, a week after high grade corporate issuers faced such a torrid time in the sterling market that some bankers called the market shut until the autumn. -
NatWest Markets has given its head of emerging markets strategy, Alvaro Vivanco, an additional role as head of ESG macro strategy.
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The wheels fell off the IG corporate sterling bond market this week, with one pulled deal and another that barely scraped through. Accusations and recriminations flew over what caused the trouble, which has likely slammed the doors shut on the sterling market until autumn. Mike Turner reports.
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Northern Powergrid (North East) postponed a sterling bond issue on Thursday a day after a housing association trade limped over the line, leaving bankers trying to decipher what caused the market to collapse this week.
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Metropolitan Housing Trust, the UK housing association, had a tough day in the sterling bond market on Wednesday, with a debut sustainable bond that limped over the line despite two days of marketing.
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Metropolitan Housing Trust, a UK housing association, has mandated for a sterling bond, amid rising concerns among bankers and investors in the UK on the almost complete easing of coronavirus pandemic social restrictions in England from Monday.
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A pair of SSA borrowers are set to squeeze a pair of benchmarks in on Tuesday just before the summer holidays period commences in earnest.
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NatWest Markets has hired UK rates trader James Bucknall from Deutsche Bank, where he was head of sterling trading.
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Rare credits are stepping in to pick up the pre-summer slack, with unusual financial and corporate names returning to a market hungry for new supply.
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Two public sector borrowers hit the primary euro market on Thursday, with the International Development Association selling its biggest ever bond in the currency and France’s Action Logement Services extending its curve with just its second ever trade.
