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  • Two pieces of news this week highlight how environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing is conquering the capital markets. But both carry a risk of intellectual laziness.
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  • KommuneKredit took a novel approach to its sterling issuance on Tuesday, adding a switch operation to print its largest ever new issue in the currency. Bankers believe other issuers may use the tactic. Meanwhile, Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten (BNG) received less interest in a sterling trade of its own.
  • As the major US banks reporting strong performances for the first quarter this week, Morgan Stanley boss James Gorman and chief financial officer Jonathan Pruzan picked out their European securitization operation out for praise, on the back of financing activity for legacy portfolios.
  • KfW drew its largest ever benchmark book this week while visiting the seven year tenor, a part of the euro curve that has been red hot for issuers for several weeks and that SSA bankers still has plenty to offer borrowers next week. The European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) is lining up a deal for next week, although bankers are suggesting it looks at the long end.
  • The derivatives industry is engaging with efforts to create credible alternative reference rates to Libor, but three years is too little time to achieve this and more attention needs to focus on the existing benchmark itself.
  • The European Investment Bank (EIB) tapped a five year Mexican peso line on Monday, becoming the latest supranational to access the popular niche currency, in what is by far the strongest start to the year on record for supranational issuance in the currency.
  • Intesa Sanpaolo’s newly approved plan to tackle its high non-performing loan (NPL) exposure includes a potential securitization of €11bn of gross NPLs and a loan servicing joint venture with a Swedish debt collection specialist as the scramble to win a share of the lucrative Italian debt servicing business gathers pace. Asad Ali reports.
  • S&P Global Ratings is preparing to launch an ESG Evaluation product, competing directly with socially responsible investment (SRI) rating firms such as MSCI and Sustainalytics.
  • The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority wrote to CEOs on Thursday, asking them to make sure the details of fixed income shares are understood by investors.
  • Additional tier one (AT1) issuers are entering into a refinancing market far faster than anyone had expected, as banks get in well ahead of time to replace the earliest trades printed in the format. Tyler Davies reports.