RBC Capital Markets
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Rentenbank and Eurofima showed that Tuesday’s midterm elections in the US might be hogging most television airwaves but they have been making little waves in the dollar SSA market. -
Export Development Bank brought another big deal to a super strong year for the sterling SSA market, as it took £500m with a floating rate note. More issuers might follow its lead over the coming weeks, said bankers.
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A pair of public sector borrowers are looking to eke out the last bit of cash from the dollar market before it shuts down for the US mid-term elections on Tuesday night.
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The Province of Alberta was set to price its joint biggest ever dollar benchmark on Thursday, with a $2.25bn November 2023.
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Japan Bank for International Cooperation took advantage of the lack of competing supply and good demand in dollars to suck $3bn out from the primary market on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the Province of Alberta has mandated banks for its third benchmark of the year.
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development returned to the sterling market on Tuesday to sell the first benchmark of its 2019 funding programme.
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The UK’s Ithaca Energy has signed $700m of loans, five months after pulling out of a high yield bond deal.
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In less than 24 hours Royal Bank of Canada and Toronto Dominion have almost doubled the volume of Canadian dollar covered bonds issued this year. And with the cost of funding being cheaper than euro covered bonds and half senior unsecured, others may be tempted to follow.
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Irish boutique investment bank Rubicon Infrastructure Advisors has hired two bankers with over 40 years of experience to expand its business into the UK.
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Yankee banks continued to dominate the high-grade calendar as lenders from across the globe teed up benchmark deals.
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