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Monday evening sale is latest block trade
◆ Danish biotech prints three tranches along the curve ◆ Seven year bond proves the sweet spot ◆ Proceeds to refinance €1.5bn acquisition bridge
Sfr4.9bn trade is largest European ECM deal since National Grid’s £7bn rights issue in 2024
Offer came as markets recovered and volatility fell
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Mauricio Cárdenas, Colombia’s finance minister in 2012-18, has told GlobalCapital that emerging market nations would struggle to raise the financing required to fund measures to treat the Covid-19 pandemic and consequent economic slump. “Difficult years are coming” for EM, warned the former official.
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Development lender the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (Cabei) raised $170m-equivalent of three year money on Tuesday after heading to the Mexican bond market, where investors see the bank as a haven credit, the bank’s CFO told GlobalCapital.
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CLO managers and investors are predicting a raft of consolidation in the industry as the virus crash leads to further tiering among managers.
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The Federal Reserve continued its roll-out of initiatives to support the economy through the Covid-19 crisis this week, including the revival of the term asset-backed loan facility (TALF). However, market participants say the program is incomplete as long as it omits certain asset classes, specifically private label CMBS, and worry that some sectors will buckle without the support of the central bank.
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Around £1bn worth of CMBS deals could be subject to cash traps, withholding payments to certain parties in the transaction, in coming months with the UK in lockdown to stop the spread of coronavirus.
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US president Donald Trump looks unable to lead a global response to the health and economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic, but the dollar is unchallenged as the global safe haven in times of crisis. This contradiction is destabilising.