Santander
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Two issuance platforms are approaching readiness: one in bonds, one in loans. Both promise time and cost savings by replacing multiple systems with a single platform for issuers, dealers and investors, and automating documentation and payments. -
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Gilts are profiting from safe-haven flows, said Robert Stheeman, chief executive of the UK Debt Management Office (DMO), which, this week, sold its first syndicated note of the 2019/20 funding year — a 6.5 times subscribed issue.
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France’s Eiffage has doubled the size of its revolving credit line to €2bn, with the civil engineering construction company becoming the latest name to add social and environmental language to its loan documentation.
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Chile raised around $1.5bn-equivalent of new peso debt on Wednesday in its fourth Euroclearable local currency deal.
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The UK Debt Management Office (DMO) started its 2019/20 funding year with a bang on Tuesday, selling a six and a half times subscribed issue.
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Latin American bond bankers believe primary market activity will pick up next week after a volatile week led some banks to postpone previously scheduled mandate announcements.
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Schlesinger leaves Santander – New responsibilities for Ross – Soc Gen shuffles markets top brass
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Latin America’s best rated sovereign, Chile, will begin investor meetings on Thursday as it plots its third Euroclearable local currency deal.
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Santander’s head of continental European private placement origination has left the bank after nearly 13 years with the firm, but only the last five months in that role.
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Barclays Bank kept the primary covered bond market alive on Wednesday, launching its first deal of the year and its first Sonia-linked transaction — though at £500m it was the bank’s smallest covered bond yet.
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After a couple of slow weeks for corporate bond issuance in Europe, the pace quickened somewhat on Tuesday, with two €500m no-grow issues. One was from a familiar name - Carrefour, the French supermarket chain - the other from a new one, Samhällsbyggnadsbolaget i Norden, a Swedish residential property company founded only in 2016.
