RBC Capital Markets
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Nederlandse Waterschapsbank has become the third European SSA to sell sterling this week, tapping a three year line for its second deal in the currency this year. -
The public sector market is awaiting the final big event of 2016 in the shape of the US Federal Reserve’s rate decision later on Wednesday. But while a US rate rise looks all but a certainty, some funding officials are anxious about the potential for volatility in the dollar market next year from a different source — politics.
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After completing a roadshow last week, US orthopaedic reconstructive products producer Zimmer Biomet made its debut in the euro bond market on Tuesday with a dual tranche transaction.
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Catalent Pharma and Thomas Cook — a reverse Yankee issuer and a UK holidays operator — on Thursday released guidance for high yield deals amounting some €900m in a market that has been mute since November 15.
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A pair of public sector borrowers hit screens this week for dollar syndications, providing an unexpectedly strong climax to 2016.
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National Australia Bank on Wednesday issued its second dollar benchmark of the year and managed to fund it at a tighter level than it could have hoped for in euros. However, the more conspicuous funding advantage for borrowers lies in sterling covered bonds.
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Royal Bank of Canada’s capital markets division dragged on the bank’s fourth quarter results, posting a 13% year on year decline in profits.
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National Australia Bank issued its second dollar benchmark of the year and managed to fund at a slightly tighter level than it could have hoped for in euros. However, the more conspicuous funding advantage is in sterling covered bonds
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Rentenbank sold what is likely to be its final benchmark of the year on Tuesday.
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Rentenbank has announced that it will sell a five year dollar bond on Tuesday, winding up its 2016 funding programme and making the most of what a banker at one of the leads called “one of the last good windows of the year”.
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Zimmer Biomet, the US orthopaedic reconstructive products producer, has mandated three banks to arrange its debut in the euro bond market, which may be a dual tranche transaction.
