Nordics

Two dollar issuers printed without tightening from initial price thoughts on Wednesday, with one opting for a benchmark and the other tapping central bank demand for floaters.

A trio of SSA issuers made moves to mop up short end dollar demand on Tuesday. NRW Bank printed a $1bn bond and two others mandated for deals.

Finnish real estate company Sponda has signed an €80m unsecured loan agreement with three banks to refinance its syndicated loan that matures this month.

Singapore-based BW Pacific has opened books for a listing on the Oslo Stock Exchange, as the tanker company looks to raise as much as Nkr2.4bn ($283m) from its IPO.

Mölnlycke, the Swedish maker of wound dressings and surgical gloves, issued a €500m eight year bond on Monday, as the corporate bond market’s awakening from earnings blackouts continued apace.

Three issuers launched covered bond benchmarks in euros this week, down from nine in the previous week, as borrowers anticipated an improvement in market conditions and lower new issue concessions.

Swedish lender Swedbank kept Australian dollar supply ticking over on Tuesday, pricing its first bond in the currency since 2008.

Nordic companies are showing a strong willingness to adopt the renminbi for payments which is a creating an opportunity for Sweden’s SEB Paula da Silva, head of transaction services at SEB, told GlobalRMB at the recent Sibos conference held in Singapore.

Skandiabanken, the Norwegian online bank, narrowed the price range of its initial public offering on Tuesday, having achieved investor coverage at that level.

The European Investment Bank has agreed to provide a loan of up to €200m to Avinor, the Norwegian airport operator.

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) issued a €1bn seven year Swedish covered bond on Monday and attracted enough interest to tighten pricing, something that few issuers were able to do recently. However, even with double the concession DNB paid, the Swedish borrower attracted much less demand than the Norwegian one. SEB’s curve has been marked 2-3bp wider following the deal.

Covered bonds worth almost €7bn were issued this week but, by virtue of its size, oversubscription ratio and breadth of demand, Nationwide Building Society’s €1bn deal stood out.