RBC Capital Markets
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Greencoat Renewables, the Irish wind farms fund managed by Greencoat Capital, has kicked off its first follow-on offering since its €270m flotation on the London Stock Exchange almost a year ago. -
A slew of deals hit screens in sterling this week, allowing SSA borrowers from three continents to pick up a combined £1.175bn ($1.55bn) in funding — including one borrower’s largest-ever deal in the currency.
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Municipality Finance grabbed the opportunity of being the only SSA dollar issuer this week to bring a very strong trade, paving the way for other borrowers to tap the currency.
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There was a smattering of sterling deals from public sector borrowers this week, as the biggest issuer in the currency — the UK Debt Management Office — provided details for its next syndication.
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Something strange is occurring in Switzerland, where the Swiss franc bond market is rife with both deep optimism and pessimism. Deal execution is riskier than it has been for years, but is being driven by bond buyers’ perceptions of better times ahead. Silas Brown asks whether the market is about to regain its mojo or if this is a case of jam tomorrow.
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The European Investment Bank threw itself into a new type of sterling deal with aplomb, making a splash with a £1bn floater referencing the Sonia benchmark, in what bankers believe may become the new standard for the market.
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A sterling floater from the European Investment Bank would not normally set tongues wagging across capital markets but the supranational’s upcoming deal is an exceptional case. The bond is a test case for what is expected by many to become the new market standard for the format, writes Lewis McLellan.
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The European Investment Bank has released initial price thoughts for a sterling benchmark floater referencing Sonia — a trade that dominated many conversations at this week's Euromoney Global Borrowers conference in London. The deal will be priced on Friday.
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After an absence of more than two years, Royal Bank of Canada this week issued its first covered bond in euros, attracting a comfortably oversubscribed order book for a €1.5bn deal which was priced with a skinny new issue concession.
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The European Investment Bank has hit screens for the first sterling floating rate benchmark designed for a post-Libor world.
