NordLB

Small, nimble trades set to typify SSA market as year draws to close

Banker moves into DCM job after helping to set up NordLB's green bond framework

Enervie, a German energy supplier, has completed a €170m refinancing package, taking the unusual step of swapping a single syndicated facility for a collection of different funding sources.

Wemag, a state-owned electricity firm in Germany, has launched a 10 year Schuldschein through NordLB’s digital platform, Finpair. Wemag follows two Austrian utilities in supplying deals at a longer tenor.

A group of bondholders is threatening legal action against NordLB, claiming the German lender is acting in bad faith by trying to terminate its silent participation capital notes.

Svenska Handelsbanken has become the latest European bank to put out a call notice for one of its additional tier ones. Market participants are expecting a clean sweep of redemptions for the asset class this year.

Altitude Infrastructure, the French telecoms company, has signed a €266m credit facility, which it will use for two fibre optic networks.

The State of Brandenburg failed to reach full subscription for a new 25 year trade on Wednesday as it priced at an exceptionally tight level to its secondary curve.

The combination of Deutsche Hypo into NordLB has failed to cause much of a stir in the covered bond market as, even though the merged cover pools will be very different, spreads between their Pfandbrief curves have little room for manoeuvre.

Public sector borrowers wasted no time in getting back to business in the euro market in 2021 with one live deal and four mandates all hitting screens on Monday as issuers look to take advantage of an almost full trading week and a supportive market to make a dent in their brand new funding programmes.

Investors holding the covered bonds issued by NordLB in Luxembourg said on Wednesday that they were concerned about prospective rating downgrades after the bank said it would be wound down and in the wake of Fitch’s announcement on Tuesday that it had withdrawn its covered bond rating.

KfW mandated banks for a seven year euro benchmark on Monday, a deal which was already expected to arrive this week and could well be the German agency’s final public deal in the currency this year.