NatWest Markets
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The Swedish National Debt Office has selected the maturity range for its debut green bond and the banks that will lead the transaction, which will take place via syndication in August. -
Fitch played down fears about the impact of payment holidays on UK covered bond pools this week, arguing that high credit quality would offer a strong line of defence against defaults.
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Crédit Agricole Assurances (CAA) added to the subordinated deal flow in the FIG bond market on Tuesday by launching a tier two bond. The French insurer benefitted from the rarity of its appearances in primary markets, and the large deal size meant that although the issuer paid some premium, it "did not leave much value on the table", according to a lead manager.
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Guarantor: Federal State of North Rhine‑Westphalia
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NRW.Bank’s inaugural social bond sparked a flurry of 15 year trades this week as a flattening French curve and the positive yields on offer helped spur on demand, with three issuers opting to follow the German agency’s successful trip to the maturity on Wednesday.
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NRW.Bank signalled to the market that there is demand at 15 years with its inaugural social bond on Tuesday. Following the deal two other European issuers, Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten and Portugal, mandated for deals of their own in the tenor.
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Europe’s high grade bond market provided some mixed indications of sentiment on Monday with the deals for Takeda and SEE seeing notable differences in demand, leaving syndicate bankers trying to work out what this means for what is expected to be a busy week of issuance.
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European banks jumped into the US dollar market this week, with some issuers clocking up huge savings in the currency versus what their home markets could offer.
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Europe’s high-grade corporate bond market had a lumpy week of issuance that petered out as the days went by. But there was a mixture of deal types for investors to snap up, including a rare chance to grab yield on a green bond.
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Austria returned to the 100 year part of the curve — a tenor it has made its own — receiving its strongest ever order book for the maturity.
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Royal Bank of Scotland and ING were set on Wednesday to add to a recent run of dollar bond issuance from European banks, with some issuers having clocked up huge savings in the currency versus what their home markets can offer.
