RBC Capital Markets
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The European Investment Bank (EIB) has picked two banks to run the books for its eighth sterling trade of the year. -
The Walt Disney Company is heading north for Canadian dollars, in its first public foray beyond the dollar market.
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Shares in Charter Court Financial Services, the UK challenger bank, rose 5% on their debut on Friday, after the company priced its IPO at 230p a share, the middle of the initial range.
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Northumbrian Water brought the first sterling corporate bond of the week when it announced a £300m 10 year deal on Thursday. It was almost a year to the day that it priced an identical deal.
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Public sector borrowers this week smashed through their conventional curves with green bond issues. But there was some debate over whether this marks the start of a trend or is merely the product of scorching conditions in both the euro and dollar markets.
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Two more public sector borrowers brought strong trades to finish a bumper week of dollar deals, both printing $1.5bn of short end dollar paper.
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On Thursday, Northumbrian Water brought the first sterling corporate bond of the week when it announced a £300m 10 year deal. It is almost a year to the day that it priced an identical deal.
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A glut of short end dollar issuance this week is set to ramp up on Thursday, after a pair of rare names in the currency mandated on Wednesday. The trades will follow a strong showing from Finnvera after the Finnish agency — also an uncommon name in dollars — printed its largest ever trade in the currency.
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KfW has punched through its conventional curve with a dollar green bond that left bankers away from the trade a similar colour of envy. More SRI supply is on the way, after the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development hit screens for Thursday’s business.
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Finnvera will on Wednesday enter a searing market for three year dollars, following a similar trade from Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten that rounded off the Dutch agency’s dollar benchmark funding for the year.
