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Canadian province to maintain market-friendly funding approach and 'meet investors where they want us'
Busy and ‘euro-heavy’ week ahead but dollar pipeline also building with issuers set to bring forward bond plans
◆ First dollar SSA benchmark in two weeks, 'very successful' ◆ 'Pro-investor' pricing approach on show once again ◆ Funding for new fiscal year well underway
Busy Thursday ahead as five euro and dollar benchmarks set to price after a slow March
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The German state of Hessen priced a 10 year benchmark on Monday to open its annual funding task.
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Auckland Council, the public authority that administers the most populous region in New Zealand, which sold its first Swiss franc bond on Monday, has been looking at opportunities for foreign currency issuance in response to a saturated domestic investor base and also to up its long-dated funding.
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Auckland Council, the entity governing New Zealand’s most populous region, made its debut in Swiss francs on Monday with an 11 year trade. The deal is Auckland’s first trade in a currency other than New Zealand dollars or Australian dollars. Meanwhile, MuniFin tapped a 10 year.
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The State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania came to market with its first benchmark syndicated trade, a 10 year bond, on Monday morning. The deal absorbed investor interest stirred up by the State of Lower Saxony’s seven year deal last week.
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Lower Saxony was the first of the German states to come to market this year, pricing a seven year trade on Thursday. The leads will price the deal on Thursday afternoon, following a bookbuild impaired by a lack of interest from domestic investors.
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How 2013 will pan out in the capital markets is too tough to call. At the end of last year there were plenty of doom merchants predicting all sorts of disasters. There was justification for it and some things did go badly — especially at UBS. But plenty went right from the bumper first quarter, to many more blowout deals than dogs and with most issuers able to wrap up early for the year.