RBC Capital Markets

Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten priced its first Maple bond for seven years on Wednesday. The C$250m ($228.0m) October 2019 was originally planned to be a pure Maple bond but ended up with 144A documentation after US investors wanted in on the deal.

Royal Bank of Canada and Toronto Dominion returned to the dollar covered bond market this week, taking the number of benchmark issues in the currency this month to four. The two $1.75bn triple-A five year deals priced at 27bp and 29bp over mid-swaps, respectively. While the two deals became joint largest dollar deals this year, it was RBC’s deal was the tightest in dollars for several years.

LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton has a cachet in the bond market, as in its own field of luxury goods. An A+ rating is rare, and LVMH is an infrequent borrower. It can also rely on the enthusiastic support of French investors.

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Euro investors lapped up a second helping of Australian infrastructure bonds on Thursday, placing more than €3.1bn of orders for an inaugural 10 year deal from rail freight operator Aurizon.

Averys, the French industrial shelving supplier, marketed its €165m refinancing loan at a bank meeting in London today.

Société Générale followed up Monday’s rush of subordinated deals with a self led euro benchmark 12 year non-call seven year tier two deal and initial price thoughts offered a chunky new issue premium.

National Australia Bank attracted a high level of European demand for a dollar denominated deal on Tuesday. The unusually broad distribution paid testimony not only to the novel syndication approach, but also the tempting outright yield relative to what would have been seen in euros.

Swiss Re drew an almost four times oversubscribed order book for a debut dated dollar subordinated debt issue on Thursday. The deal showed that appetite for sub debt remains robust among investors, even following starkly reduced demand for additional tier one paper deals from Santander and UniCredit earlier this week.

Swiss Re drew an almost four times oversubscribed order book for its debut dated dollar sub print on Thursday, with leads pricing the deal inside of initial price thoughts. The deal shows that appetite for sub debt remains robust among investors, even following starkly reduced demand in the market for additional tier one paper for prints from Santander and UniCredit earlier this week.

BMW reopened the European benchmark investment grade corporate bond new issue market on Tuesday with a punchy €1.75bn deal that sent a strong signal: spreads — and especially yields — for corporate issuers are set for a very tight autumn. BMW paid a coupon of just 0.5% on its €1bn four year tranche. But despite these pitifully thin yields, investors are eager to buy.

Record performance in RBC’s capital markets business helped the bank to rack up better than expected profits last week, taking its shares to all time highs.