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Why have bond investors taken a vow of silence?

Pacific Gas & Electric has gone bankrupt with $52bn of debt, blaming forest fires that seared California during 2018. Vale, with $11bn, has been downgraded to the bottom edge of investment grade after its horrific dam burst last Friday.

Jon Hay, January 31, 2019
SSA Bond Comments

NRW.Bank USD1bn FRN Feb 21

Guarantor: Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia

Burhan Khadbai, January 31, 2019
SSA Bond Comments

Bpifrance EUR1.5bn 0.125% Nov 23 tap

Guarantor: EPIC BPI-France

Burhan Khadbai, January 31, 2019
SSA Bond Comments

NWB EUR1bn 0.625% Feb 29 affordable housing bond

Rating: Aaa/AAA

Burhan Khadbai, January 31, 2019
Supras and agencies

Five’s alive as KfW gets record, taps balloon

Euro agencies favoured fives over the last seven days, as KfW smashed its order record and a pair of French agencies brought taps at sizes multiple times their target. With some SSA bankers saying conditions are the best they have ever seen, supply looks likely to keep coming.

Craig McGlashan, January 31, 2019
People News

People moves in brief

JPM shuffles for M&A opportunity — IFC picks treasurer — HSBC announces head of global markets

Burhan Khadbai, January 31, 2019
Sovereigns

Belgium’s long play, Austria’s tight effort scale new sov heights

There was another scorching start to the year for eurozone sovereigns this week with yet more records dropping as Belgium took its largest ever number of orders and Austria sold its biggest ever deal from its largest ever book. But it was the nature of the successes — Belgium with a long dated trade and Austria the most expensive 10 year of the year so far — that really caught the eye.

Burhan Khadbai, January 31, 2019
Sovereigns

Big fat Greek bond to spur periphery spree

Greece’s impressive return to the public bond markets this week has set the perfect backdrop for further syndication in 2019, which bankers say could be a 10 year, a maturity it has not tested since its 2014 post-bailout comeback. The big bid for eurozone periphery debt could also see Greek and Italian banks sell covered bonds in the near future, according to market participants. Burhan Khadbai and Bill Thornhill report.

Bill Thornhill, January 31, 2019
Emerging Markets

Powell puts kibosh on hikes, EM investors jubilant

The hopes of emerging markets participants proved well founded on Wednesday when US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell pulled back from the aggressive trajectory of rate hikes previously promised.

Lewis McLellan, January 31, 2019
Southpaw

Barbarians arrive at the banks’ gates as others flee

While banks fight shy of big-ticket mergers, a select group of private equity firms are leading the restructuring of the industry in Europe, writes David Rothnie.

David Rothnie, January 31, 2019
Alpha Bank shifts non-performing SME loans

Alpha Bank sold a €1bn gross-book value portfolio of non-performing Greek SME loans, along with €56m repossessed real estate assets, to a group of funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management and International Finance Corporation in December. The bank was advised by White & Case.

Tom Brown, January 31, 2019
Bank Capital

Blowout UBS deal raises hopes of return to form for AT1

Financial institutions bond bankers are hoping that the additional tier one market is back in fashion with investors, after UBS was able to attract a whopping $16bn of orders for a $2.5bn transaction this week.

Tyler Davies, January 31, 2019

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