Spanish Sovereign
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A pair of socially responsible investment deals from public sector borrowers received mixed views on Monday from on-looking SSA bankers. Instituto de Crédito Oficial was able to tighten its spread by 3bp for its first syndication of 2018, while Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten returned for its second sustainability bond of the year. -
The Autonomous Community of Andalusia is aiming to revisit the public and private bond markets next year, according to the region’s minister of economy and finance.
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The Autonomous Community of Andalusia this week became the first Spanish region to return to the capital markets while still under the central government’s Regional Liquidity Fund.
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The Autonomus Community of Andalusia received plenty of demand for its first syndication in over seven years on Wednesday, allowing the issuer to increase the size of its deal and tighten pricing.
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The Autonomous Community of Andalusia has mandated banks for what Dealogic data shows is its first syndication since May 2011.
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A debut sovereign green bond from Ireland and benchmark from a Spanish agency provided the firmest proof yet that the fiscal stink over Italy’s planned budget deficit has not put investors off other SSAs in the eurozone — even those that until recently were in the same ‘periphery’ bucket as Italy. But bankers are concerned that Italy’s standoff with the European Union has further to run — and that a BTP spread over Bunds of 400bp will be the breaking point.
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Spain's Fondo de Amortización del Déficit Eléctrico (FADE) will look to the private market to complete its 2018 funding programme, following the sale of its second and final syndication of the year.
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Fondo de Amortización del Déficit Eléctrico braved volatility in the eurozone periphery bond market on Wednesday for its second benchmark of the year.
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Italy’s latest political drama is making investors nervous, and rightly so — when the leader of a country’s main governing party accuses European leaders of market ‘terrorism’, in the vein of an ‘EU equals the USSR’ conspiracy theorist, then you’d be right to dump its bonds. But the steadiness of Spanish and Portuguese govvies through all this shows not only that the term ‘eurozone periphery’ may have to be consigned to the historical dustbin, but that the firewalls erected by those same European leaders after the last sovereign debt crisis are standing firm.
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