NatWest Markets
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Eni, the Italian oil and gas company, got its chunky €2bn hybrid capital issue comfortably oversubscribed on Tuesday, after a similar success for Orange last week. Corporate bond investors are piling money into anything that offers higher returns. -
Wickes Group, the UK do-it-yourself retailer, has signed an £80m revolving credit facility, as the company completes its postponed demerger from Travis Perkins.
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NatWest Group recorded a loss at its investment bank on Thursday, after climbing down from the dizzying heights of last year’s first quarter profits. The weaker numbers weighed on the performance of the group, but the bank still managed to breeze past market expectations.
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Origin Housing, a housing association with homes in and around London, has sold £125m of US private placements – one of the bigger deals from the sector.
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Issuers piled into Europe’s high grade corporate market on Wednesday but investor responses were mixed when it came to the deals at the tightest spreads.
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Europe’s high grade bond investors are set to be offered new bonds from both ends of the ratings spectrum this week, as A2 rated air traffic controller Nats (En Route) and fallen angel car parts company ZF Friedrichshafen planned deals.
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Iberdrola, the Spanish utility, and Clarion Housing, the UK housing association, became the latest companies to sign loans using risk-free rates instead of Libor, as more deals are signing that ditch the scandal-ridden benchmark from day one.
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Iberdrola, the Spanish utility, has signed a €2.5bn sustainability-linked loan, becoming the first Spanish company to use risk-free rates as a benchmark instead of Libor.
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Coventry Building Society paid only a small premium to issue an inaugural non-preferred senior note on Tuesday, while scoring a pre-emptive senior ratings boost during the process.
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Coventry Building Society is set to sell its inaugural non-preferred senior bond, which it will use to optimise its balance sheet ahead of a deadline for its end-state minimum requirements for own funds and eligible liabilities (MREL).
