Nordics
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Oma Savings Bank plans to open order books for a covered bond on Wednesday following an earlier roadshow. The deal comes amid a dearth of covered bond supply this week and a return to negative rates suggesting good scope for ultra-long dated supply. -
Norwegian media group Schibsted has launched a spinoff of its classified advertising division, having announced its intention to float on the Oslo Børs.
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Guarantor: Swedish local government members
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Kommuninvest built out its Swedish krona green curve benchmark this week with its longest dated bond in the format. There is, however, an expectation that this Skr3.5bn ($382.3m) five year green bond could be the curve’s furthest extent.
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The unique assets and business model of Danish Ship Finance meant the price discovery process was much more challenging for its first euro covered bond than is typical. However, with a conservative starting spread the issuer reeled investors in for its inaugural euro benchmark on Thursday.
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Danmarks Skibskredit has mandated leads for a 3.5 year single A rated Danish covered bond secured on shipping loans.
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The Depository Trust & Clearing Corp has agreed a deal to provide post-trade infrastructure services to enable SEB, the Swedish banking group, to meet its obligations under the Securities Financing Transactions Regulation.
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Both Kommunalbanken (KBN) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) came to the Kangaroo market this week. A need for long dated Australian dollar paper from Japanese investors drove the deals.
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A Sk1.8bn (€102.1m) trade in Loomis, the Swedish cash handling company, on Monday night led to a structural change in the company’s shares, with the firm no longer having a dual class share structure.
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Norwegian Air Shuttle, the Norwegian airline, has priced its heavily discounted Nkr3bn (€308m) rights issue receiving a high take-up from shareholders, despite safety concerns over some of its fleet and heavy shorting of the stock.
