Nordics
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Bank of America Merrill Lynch has hired a banker from SEB to lead its equity capital markets business in the Nordic region. -
Telecoms company TDC fired the opening shot of a multi-billion funding package for its leveraged buyout this week, with some investors showing mixed feelings about such deals.
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EQT has cleared out its stake in Terveystalo, the Finnish private healthcare company it floated on the Nasdaq Helsinki in October.
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Kojamo, Finland’s largest private real estate company, has launched an initial public offering and is seeking to list in Helsinki.
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The highly anticipated IPO of iZettle, the Swedish payments company, has been called off, as PayPal has struck a deal to buy the company.
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Big moves in US Treasury yields, swap spreads and the euro/dollar and euro/sterling basis swaps put paid to some dollar issuance this week as some borrowers held back and others tapped different currencies. But a pair of Swedish names did get deals done, and rates started to move back into more favourable areas, suggesting volumes could pick up again next week.
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Arion Banki, the domestic arm of failed Icelandic bank Kaupthing, plans to become the first bank in Iceland to return to the stockmarket nearly a decade on from the financial crisis, having announced its intention to float on Nasdaq Iceland and Nasdaq Stockholm.
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Landshypotek Bank was able to close the price gap to its larger Swedish peers on Wednesday when it issued its first green covered bond.
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Nordea issued a €1bn seven year bond on Thursday and attracted the highest subscription ratio of any euro covered bond of this size in 2018, while pricing with a tiny new issue premium. The execution offers further evidence that covered bonds are on a solid footing, in contrast with other sectors.
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Kommuninvest printed a $1bn three year dollar bond on Wednesday, following the example set by Swedish Export Credit Corporation (SEK) but shaving an extra few basis points from its spread.
