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  • The covered bond market has not looked this strong all year, and with the European Central Bank (ECB) widely expected to announce a tapering of asset purchases this month, borrowers are highly motivated to issue in size and duration — a message that BPCE understood loud and clear when it issued a long 10 year on Wednesday.
  • La Banque Postale was able to tighten pricing by over 10bp from initial price thoughts as it became the latest French name to issue in the senior non-preferred asset class.
  • Iccrea Banca sold its second euro senior deal of 2017 on Wednesday, with Italian banks piling back into the primary market and eclipsing last year’s issuance volumes.
  • Nationale-Nederlanden Bank (NN Bank) issued its first covered bond flat to fair value, yet still managed to achieve a subscription ratio higher than any other Dutch covered bond in at least five years.
  • CEE
    Hungary had taken books of €5.75bn for its new euro benchmark on Wednesday, after announcing that investors had agreed to tender $3.3bn of its outstanding dollar notes.
  • Global Education Management Systems (GEMS) Education of Dubai is to launch a $1.2bn syndicated loan, ahead of its planned initial public offering early next year.
  • SSA
    The buy-side is slowly removing European duration from portfolios in anticipation of the European Central Bank cutting its asset purchase programme, according to an investment director. Meanwhile, new cash flowing into the eurozone periphery is likely to go to Italy over Spain while uncertainty lingers over Catalonia’s future.
  • German Unity Day and Golden Week in Asia have given European corporate bond investors a break from new issues and a chance to consider whether the current tight level of spreads is right or too tight. Many expect more tightening to come, so picking the right sectors and geographies will be the key to performance.
  • Finland’s Aktia Bank sold a sub-benchmark three year floating rate deal on Wednesday, attracting attention despite competition from five other financial institutions in the euro market.
  • The chief counsel to former Commissioner Sharon Bowen, Petal Walker, followed her boss on the way out of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Tuesday.
  • The European Commission is readying proposals to deal with the continent’s vast stock of non-performing loans (NPLs), including an out of court foreclosure process meant to speed up asset resolution.
  • Despite the momentum in Europe’s equity capital markets showing little sign of stalling, with a new wave of deals this week across a number of sectors, two of the year’s most high profile IPOs have traded down in the aftermarket.