NatWest Markets
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A public sector debt capital markets banker is returning to NatWest Markets, where she worked between 2010 and 2017, GlobalCapital understands. -
The UK’s Wilmington has renewed its sterling revolving credit facility, with the digital business publishing house switching out one of its lending banks in the process.
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UK train leasing firm Porterbrook has sent out requests for proposals to US private placement agents, for a prospective return to the market.
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An undersupplied sterling bond market was on Wednesday given two new corporate deals to chew on: a £350m three year from carmaker BMW and a £250m no-grow eight year from UK retailer Marks & Spencer. Abertis Infraestructuras, the Spanish roll road operator, also offered a €1.3bn six and 10 year deal.
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The UK’s National Express has become the first company to sign a loan benchmarked against Sonia, as part of NatWest’s pilot programme to shift away from the scandal-hit Libor standard.
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Gatwick, London's second airport, offered a £300m no-grow 30 year bond into a quieter corporate bond market on Thursday, while Engie, the French power and gas group, issued a €500m non-call 5.75 year hybrid. This slowing of issuance from the frenetic pace earlier in the week was welcomed by bankers concerned investors might have been overtaxed.
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Motability Operations Group, the UK company that operates the UK government's scheme to provide cars for the disabled, printed a £1.438bn-equivalent euro and sterling three tranche bond on Wednesday, in a busy day that also brought a €1bn two part issue from OMV, the Austrian oil and gas company.
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Rentenbank failed to achieve subscription for its €500m 10 year trade on Tuesday, despite offering a positive yield and a maturity that has been labelled the ‘sweet spot’ in the euro public sector bond market.
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Europe's investment grade corporate bond market began the week with a hefty pack of new bond issues, as issuers were spurred on to bring deals by last week's rally and the favourable performance of past prints.
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Three Nordic banks and one British bank placed paper in Swedish krona this week. NatWest Markets made its debut in the currency, while Scandinavian-based Avida Finans printed its first AT1. Avida Finans plans to follow this debut AT1 with a future stock exchange listing.
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NatWest Markets is piloting a bilateral loan option for some of its corporate clients that uses the Sonia benchmark instead of the scandal-hit Libor, in a move the bank says is a first for the market.
