Santander

After four euro new issues in two days, the sterling market took its chance for a day in the spotlight as two issuers chose to bring new deals while euro borrowers remained on the sidelines. However, despite the recent lack of issuance, investors pushed back on spreads being tightened.

Spain’s first trip to the long end of the curve in almost two years met with an overwhelming response, as the sovereign received one of the largest books ever for a 30 year bond.

Spain has picked banks for its second deal of the year, looking towards the long end of the curve for the first time since May 2016.

Santander's co-head of FIG trading has left the bank. GlobalCapital understands.

On Monday, the UK’s second busiest airport, Gatwick, sold its largest bond deal to date with a £300m 30 year trade. Investors were ready for the transaction after Moody’s announced its initial rating for the company the previous week.

Santander Consumer Bank AS sold its first ever five year senior bond in the euro market on Monday, raising €500m of new funding with five times as much in orders in tow.

Prisa, the Spanish media group, has raised €563m to tackle its high debts after its rights issue finished more than seven times oversubscribed.

The Autonomous Community of Madrid this week made a triumphant second visit to the socially responsible investment (SRI) market as it printed a deal double the size of its debut last year. Further issuance from the borrower — in conventional and SRI format — is likely to come soon, although in private placement (PP) format. But there may be further SRI issuance from some of Madrid’s Spanish peers.

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Creval, the Italian bank, has kicked off its fully underwritten €699m rights issue, having announced the price range late on Wednesday evening.

The Spanish National Court has ordered parties involved in a criminal investigation into Banco Popular to hand over nearly 80 related documents, including a full and unredacted version of Deloitte’s valuation report.

The Autonomous Community of Madrid on Tuesday printed its largest ever sustainable bond — and its biggest bond of any kind in three years — with a trade that was double the size of its SRI debut last year. Bankers away from the trade hailed the “excellent” result, with one saying it was “probably as good a result as the issuer could have hoped for”.