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LevFin High Yield Bonds

Exotic Joe helps Netflix bonds go

Netflix was set to price a five year euro tranche in a $1bn-equivalent high yield bond at 3% on Thursday evening, proving there is ready market access available for companies that can demonstrate they’re coping with coronavirus. The streaming company saw record subscriber growth and broke into free cash flow territory for the first time, partly thanks its smash hit documentary Tiger King, watched by 64 million households.

Jasper Cox, April 23, 2020
Structured Bonds

Punch asks bondholders to look at last year's figures when assessing debt

UK pub companies with secured debt structures are asking bondholders to waive covenants and suspend potential enforcement action, as the government-mandated shutdown continues. Bondholders in Punch Taverns Finance B are being asked to feed last year's figures into covenant calculations while the lockdown is in force, in a potential model for the other pub companies struggling with stalled cashflow.

Owen Sanderson, April 23, 2020
Sovereigns

Belgium and Ireland bump up funding in response to Covid-19

Belgium and Ireland announced increases to their 2020 funding requirements this week, as they look to counter the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

Burhan Khadbai, April 23, 2020
ABBs-Block Trades

Telecom Italia, Vodafone offload Inwit stock to reduce leverage

Telecom Italia and Vodafone have monetised part of their stakes in Inwit, the Italian wireless telecommunications infrastructure company, reopening the market for secondary share sales in Europe.

Aidan Gregory, April 23, 2020
Private debt

Crisis will be 'Darwinian' for private debt — Tikehau’s co-founder Mathieu Chabran

GlobalCapital's Silas Brown spoke to Mathieu Chabran, co-founder of European alternative asset manager Tikehau Capital. They discussed how the relatively new private debt market in Europe will navigate its way through the pandemic, who the winners and losers will be in the asset class, and what opportunities may emerge from the dust.

Silas Brown, April 23, 2020
Asia

Tianqi reels from lithium price drop with $3.5bn loan refi under pressure

Tianqi Lithium Corp’s rising debt burden since its acquisition of a stake in a Chilean mining company two years ago is causing trouble. The Chinese borrower is seeking covenant waivers and a tenor extension on part of a $3.5bn loan, raising concerns among bankers about the performance of other commodity credits amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Pan Yue reports.

Pan Yue, April 23, 2020
Asia

Khazanah launches $209m Tenaga block

Malaysian sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional is in the market to offload a chunk of Tenaga Nasional shares. It is looking to raise up to MR910.2m ($208.8m) from the block.

Jonathan Breen, April 23, 2020
Bank Results

Levfin losses and deriv hedges weigh on Credit Suisse

Credit Suisse took a $294m hit from marking leveraged finance underwriting exposure to market in the first quarter, its results on Thursday showed, as March’s volatility and jump in credit spreads took their toll.

Jasper Cox, April 23, 2020
FIG

CRH reopens sevens, demos strength

Caisse de Refinancement de l’Habitat (CRH) issued the first big seven year covered bond since February on Thursday, attracting extraordinary demand and pricing in line with where recently issued French five year deals were trading. It sent a bullish signal to the market and came after a long series of French financial institution bonds that have highlighted just how practical and market-orientated the country’s banking sector has become.

Bill Thornhill, April 23, 2020
CEE

Hungary ramps up corona funding, taking €2bn out of market

The Republic of Hungary made a jumbo return to euro markets on Thursday with its first hard currency trade since 2018. Bankers expect more trades from both the sovereign and its neighbours.

Ross Lancaster, April 23, 2020
Asia

What happens when you add a minus? Gemdale’s bond investors find out

Gemdale, a Chinese property company, raised the ire of investors this week when it cut the coupon on an outstanding bond by 379bp, despite documentation stating the coupon could only be increased. Rebecca Feng reports.

Rebecca Feng, April 23, 2020
FIG People and Markets

Swedish banks treat market to detailed breakdown of loan risks

Svenska Handelsbanken and Swedbank looked to be as transparent as possible when laying out their assumptions for loan losses this week, as part of an effort to reassure the market about their resilience in the face of the coronavirus crisis.

Tyler Davies, April 23, 2020

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