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Supras and agencies

IADB launches 15 year Kangaroo note

Inter-American Development Bank launched a debut 15 year Kangaroo bond on Monday, the third supranational to look for ultra-long Australian dollar funding in the last year.

Silas Brown, June 19, 2017
Corporate Bonds

Pipeline flows as IG market hots up

As temperatures across Europe hit new highs for the year, primary issuance is also hotting up in its corporate bond market. Borrowers led the charge on Monday with three well received deals totalling five tranches.

Nigel Owen, June 19, 2017
SSA

High yield bond market waits for loan retreat

The European high yield bond market is suffering at the hands of an ultra-competitive leveraged loan market that, driven by central bank cash, is offering borrowers exceptional terms. It will be different when central bank special measures end. Until then, high yield investors will have to be patient, and avoid becoming desperate and making mistakes. Michael Turner reports.

Michael Turner, June 19, 2017
SSA

Globalisation fires up red hot levfin market

Conditions for issuers in the European leveraged finance market have arguably never been better, but the story has a lot more to it than cyclical conditions and a reach for yield, writes Nick Jacob. Secular trends have reshaped the market, dissolving the barriers between bonds and loans and between the US and Europe, and created an unprecedented menu of options for issuers.

Nick Jacob, June 19, 2017
Asia

Asia’s loan market: overbanked but innovation is stirring

The Asian loan market hasn’t exactly been a hotbed of inventiveness, but it’s still seen some changes. Domestic markets, particularly China, have become vastly more active, while the balance of power in the market has shifted towards local lenders. All, however, are struggling in a world of low margins and low volumes. Adrian Murdoch reports.

GlobalCapital, June 19, 2017
SSA

Asian ECM painful for Western banks, but sophistication grows

Asian equity capital markets are maturing, slowly but surely. Institutional investment is growing and capital pools are getting deeper. However, change cannot come quickly enough for ECM bankers in the region, who hope that an improving 2017 will make up for a miserable 2016. Adrian Murdoch reports.

GlobalCapital, June 19, 2017
SSA

Corporate bonds prepare for a world without CSPP

Europe’s corporate bond market has been shaped in the past year, for better or worse, by the European Central Bank’s unprecedented corporate bond buying programme. But as Michael Turner reports, market participants are deeply divided about what may lie ahead as the end of central bank largesse draws near.

Michael Turner, June 19, 2017
SSA

Loans still struggle, even with $100bn landmark on the cards

As ultra-competitive and marginally profitable as ever, syndicated loans must combat encroaching capital market rivals while praying for an M&A boom to mask dwindling overall volumes and generate lucrative ancillary business. In the longer term, vanilla lending looks ripe for digitalisation, but emerging market corporates and structured financings offer the prospect of a higher-margin future, reports Julian Lewis.

GlobalCapital, June 19, 2017
Investment Grade Loans

Amazon uses rating-sensitive bridge for Whole Foods takeover

Amazon is using a rating-sensitive bridge facility for its $13.7bn acquisition of Whole Foods, in the US loan market’s second largest transaction of 2017.

Silas Brown, June 19, 2017
SSA

Swissie 2.0 gains credit as Matterhorns loom

Once a staple of public sector borrower funding, the Swiss franc bond market has morphed into a smaller, credit-driven sector under the twin pressures of negative rates and evaporated arbitrage. Corporates are the stars of the Swissie 2.0 era, with emerging markets names and more junior debt providing further routes to the yield investors crave, reports Julian Lewis.

GlobalCapital, June 19, 2017
SSA

Smaller currency issuers keep finding new niches

From high volume markets such as Australian and Hong Kong dollars, to exotic and frontier currencies such as Dominican pesos, Mongolian tughriks and West African francs, niche currency bonds have carved out an important role in capital markets, writes Silas Brown.

Silas Brown, June 19, 2017
SSA

MTNs — your flexible friend

The actions of central banks and regulators have put the medium term note market under intense pressure but, with the flexibility that has always characterised the product, MTNs are still providing value to borrowers and investors. By Lewis McLellan.

Lewis McLellan, June 19, 2017

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