RBC Capital Markets
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Kroger and Alimentation Couche-Tard led a flurry of issuance by dollar borrowers to exploit red hot demand for high grade paper. With the bulk of corporate America in earnings blackout, the retailers demonstrated the strength of investor sentiment.
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Greencoat Renewables, the newly created Irish wind farm operator managed by Greencoat Capital, has managed to increase the size of its IPO on the Dublin and London bourses by €20m, after it won demand from around 80 investors. -
A pair of three year prints in dollars provoked very different reactions from GC BondMarker voters in the second quarter. Read on to find out more in this week’s BondMarker round-up, which looks at the most notable dollar deals of the last quarter.
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US cleaning products maker Diversey has accelerated commitments on its €1.6bn-equivalent of loans, backing Bain Capital’s $3.2bn carve-out of the business from Sealed Air, despite one investor in London expressing concern over the deal’s leverage.
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The Province of Alberta on Wednesday passed its first bond market test since suffering a double downgrade from S&P in May. Bankers away from the trade said it was a “good outcome”, despite having to pay a bit of concession — unlike most other dollar deals over the last few weeks.
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Sweden on Tuesday printed a dollar benchmark at one of the tightest spreads to mid-swaps from a public sector issuer this year, as a Canadian province prepared to bring a deal in the currency further out the curve.
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RBC Capital Markets has hired James Agnew, a veteran UK corporate broking executive, to be chairman of corporate broking for its business in Europe.
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) printed a $500m floating rate note on Wednesday, coming just ahead of the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), which is preparing several tranches of dollar paper for Wednesday.
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Public sector borrowers are staying conservative in the dollar market this week, opting for short dated trades or floating rate notes. The trend is likely down to issuers having one eye on expected Federal Reserve rate increases in the US, said bankers.
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Asian Development Bank opened proceedings on two Kangaroo taps on Monday.
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Volkswagen priced the third sterling corporate bond deal in as many days on Thursday, taking total supply over £3bn this week. Aggregate order books for the week are now approaching £10bn.
