Nordics
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KommuneKredit printed an A$60m ($45.7) tap of its November 2026 Kangaroo bond on Wednesday, with bankers confident more reverse enquiry-driven taps are en route. -
The European Investment Bank kicked off post-summer jumbo dollar issuance on Tuesday with a well-received five year deal, as another issuer jumped in with a shorter dated mandate.
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Swedish industrial machinery firm Atlas Copco received eight times the demand required for a €500m 10 year bond on Tuesday, signalling the end of the summer break in the corporate bond market.
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Sparebank 1 Boligkreditt on Tuesday followed Commerzbank into the covered bond market. By coming 20bp back of Commerz, the Norwegian sale was much smoother.
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Atlas, the Swedish industrial machinery maker, on Monday launched a €500m 10 year note, the first bond roadshow by a Nordic corporate borrower in three months.
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Commerzbank and Sparebank 1 Boligkreditt have mandated leads for 10 year euro covered bond benchmarks after WL Bank issued a 10 year on Monday. Deutsche Pfandbriefbank is due with a dollar-denominated Reg S covered bond benchmark, while the main supply in capital comes from DBS Bank.
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Bionor Pharma, the Norwegian biotech firm focused on developing a cure for HIV, will raise Nkr104m ($12.6m) after it simultaneously priced its private placement and announced a fully underwritten rights issue on Thursday.
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A seemingly unstoppable flow of dollar issuance from public sector borrowers looks set to spill into next week, after a slightly undersubscribed deal early this week failed to dent sentiment for other trades.
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A pair of issuers brought comfortably oversubscribed dollar benchmarks on Wednesday, leading bankers to speculate that other issuers could be tempted to follow with trades in the currency next week.
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A pair of public sector borrowers are set to join NRW.Bank in the dollar market this week, taking advantage of good conditions — and with perhaps one eye on the US presidential election in early November.
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Finnish paper and packaging group Powerflute picked two banks to refinance a €120m acquisition facility.
