NatWest Markets

Royal Bank of Scotland is preparing to sell its first social senior bond from its holding company, giving investors a rare chance to add exposure to a UK issuer in the format.

Germany’s E.On came with a €500m no-grow 2031 trade on Thursday, as corporate bond syndicate bankers said it was still too early to judge the scale of the European Central Bank’s bond buying programme.

The UK’s Derwent London has signed a £450m revolving credit facility that is partly made up of a green loan tranche, in what the borrower says is the first deal of its kind for a UK real estate investment trust (Reit).

Germany’s Daimler and the Netherlands’ KPN were out for euro bonds on Wednesday. High grade corporate bond players kept an eagle eye on the trades to see what shape the European Central Bank’s bond buying programme would take this time round.

Triple Point Social Housing REIT has almost doubled the size of its sterling revolving credit facility, as UK housing firms continue to shore up funding during Brexit uncertainty.

Sovereign Housing Association, which has 58,000 homes, mainly in the southwest of England, received chunky demand for a 29 year sterling bond issue on Monday, as the extension of the UK's Brexit deadline piqued investors' appetite for sterling assets.

NatWest Markets made just £2m from its rates business in the third quarter, the bank said on Thursday, helping to push Royal Bank of Scotland’s investment bank back into the red. Some are uncertain over the future of the business.

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Investors piled into a new hybrid bond for hotel group Accor this week to oversubscribe the €500m deal by almost six times. The demand reflected a ramping up of the hunt for yield as the European Central Bank stokes the fires of its corporate bond buying programme.

The UK’s GoCo Group has refinanced its bank debt with £115m of loans, with the insurance and price comparison group more than doubling the size of its revolving credit facility as it looks to fund a new “transformative” strategy.

France’s Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield has set final terms on a €750m trade, with the commercial real estate firm ramping up the size while whittling away at the spread to around a single digit new issue premium.

Royal Bank of Canada was able to raise £400m of senior funding as though it was on 'autopilot' in the sterling market this week. It is the third Canadian issuer in a month to seek funding in this currency counting as total loss-absorbing capacity (TLAC).