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Covered Bonds

BPI to reopen Portuguese covered bonds

Banco BPI mandated lead managers for a five year Portuguese covered bond on Thursday — the first from the country since October 2017. The announcement suggests borrowers have a good reason to hit the market even though they will be able to fund more cheaply by tapping the European Central Bank.

Bill Thornhill, March 14, 2019
SRI

World Bank launches first tranche of $200bn climate investment

The World Bank has unveiled the first details of how it will spend the first slice of its planned $200bn of investments to help poor countries cope with climate change, with $22.5bn aimed at helping African nations.

GlobalCapital, March 14, 2019
Supras and agencies

Strong week for dollar SSA issuance belies empty pipeline

World Bank raised $4.5bn of five year bonds on Tuesday with its first dollar benchmark of the year. Municipality Finance (MuniFin) joined it at the tenor a day later, but this is widely expected to be SSA issuers’ last hurrah in the currency for a few weeks.

Mike Turner, March 14, 2019
Equity IPOs

Traton postpones IPO after buyers balk at valuation

German automobiles conglomerate Volkswagen has postponed the flotation of Traton, its trucks division, after the company could not achieve its desired valuation owing to a difficult backdrop for the automobile sector.

Aidan Gregory, March 14, 2019
Asia

Investors gun for India’s debut Reit listing

India’s equity capital market is on edge as Embassy Office Parks Real Estate Investment Trust prepares the country’s first Reit IPO. But while the hotly-anticipated listing has global institutional investors chomping at the bit, the deal may be a one-off treat as the issuer has very few peers.

Jonathan Breen, March 14, 2019
Asia

SFC raps global banking quartet for IPO work

Hong Kong’s securities regulator has fined Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Standard Chartered and UBS after investigations into the banks’ sponsorship of a series of IPOs. The Swiss bank has also had its sponsor licence revoked for a year. Jonathan Breen reports.

Jonathan Breen, March 14, 2019
Asia

UOB breaks ground with Singapore Panda bond

United Overseas Bank (UOB) became the first Singaporean issuer to sell a Panda bond this week, raising Rmb2bn ($298m) from a three year deal. Rebecca Feng reports.

Rebecca Feng, March 14, 2019
Derivatives

Prop traders rally against exchange speed bumps

Proprietary trading firms have hit out against some derivatives exchange’s plans to introduce passive liquidity protection on some of the contracts that they offer, in an open letter to US regulators.

Ross Lancaster, March 14, 2019
SSA

Bank of America loses two traders in London

Two London-based traders from Bank of America’s macro trading business have resigned, GlobalCapital understands.

Burhan Khadbai, March 14, 2019
Supras and agencies

Unédic eyes SRI entry

Unédic, the French unemployment agency, is looking to make its foray into the socially responsible bond market.

Burhan Khadbai, March 14, 2019
SRI

Taxonomy law in doubt as countries drag feet, conservatives weaken text

Both the nature and timing of the European Union’s planned Taxonomy of Sustainable Economic Activities are in doubt. Conservative members of the European Parliament this week voted down an ambitious draft of the bill, and some nation states appear reluctant to push the Taxonomy bill through to the statute book before the European elections in May, writes Jon Hay.

Jon Hay, March 14, 2019
Asia

Investors force REC to pay up for bond waiver

Investors have challenged REC’s proposed waiver to a change of control clause, forcing the borrower to pay up more to get the consent it needed.

Morgan Davis, March 14, 2019

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