Santander
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GlobalCapital interviews covered bond traders, Jonas Klink and Jordi Cabero, to try and find out how after only three years, Santander has become a dominant force on the Street. -
Spain rode out another volatile day in eurozone government bonds to finish up with a healthy €5bn of 15 year paper from an order book nearly treble that size.
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Spain is set to bring its second benchmark of the year after mandating banks on Tuesday, as the country enjoys a spell of stability compared to some of its eurozone peers and a market that appears to be calming after a volatile start to the week.
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Santander has poached yet another banker from the Royal Bank of Scotland's leveraged finance team, as Saul Proctor becomes financial sponsor director at the Spanish bank.
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Landesbank Baden-Württemberg has priced the tightest covered bond of the year and was able to tighten pricing to a greater extent than any other German issuer this year.
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A number of financial institutions have distanced themselves from the primary market for additional tier one (AT1) bonds this week, but there is no doubting that the asset class has been on fire in 2017. It is only a matter of time before supply restarts, and Spanish banks will be first in line, writes Tyler Davies.
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Europe’s IPO market — sluggish, so far this year — is beginning to warm up, with the announcement of a smattering of new deals this week.
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French covered bond issuer BPCE attracted almost €1.4bn of demand for its seven year as the need to price over OATs conferred a generous new issue premium. But with French covered bonds trading much tighter than OATs in the 10 year tenor there is a growing sense that a new 10 year issue could soon price much tighter than France.
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A triumvirate of covered bond issuers from Denmark and Norway enjoyed stellar demand for their euro covered bond benchmarks this week.
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BP Capital Markets brought a £400m bond to the market on Thursday that was priced in line with initial price thoughts, causing disagreement between bankers on and off the execution about where marketing levels should have started.
