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'Dead quiet' few weeks will benefit issuers as excess bonds need absorption before issuance starts to ‘fire on all cylinders’ from August 17
Green investors buy when everyone else stops, giving issuers one last pricing lever — perhaps to cross a line none of them wants to reach
◆ Scaled-back bank treasuries snap up rare seven year floater ◆ Dollar FRN drought eases as World Bank extends curve ◆ Floater lands inside fixed rate funding levels
◆ New sterling five year lands after BoE Level B upgrade ◆ Dollar FRN 'snowball' as $2bn raised ◆ Callable issuance steady as zero structures cool
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KfW and the European Investment Bank mandated banks on Wednesday for the first sterling SSA deals of the year. Public sector borrowers are looking to pile into the sterling market before the crunch vote by the UK Parliament on Theresa May’s Brexit deal in mid-January, with deals expected in both Sonia-linked and fixed rate formats. -
The European Financial Stability Facility sent out a request for proposals on Wednesday, with the issuer likely to kick off its 2019 funding with a big trade in the short to mid part of the euro curve, according to bankers.
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Deutsche Bank said it has been granted exemption from a financial penalty by the European Commission after the bank was accused — along with three others — for breaching antitrust rules in the trading of SSA bonds.
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The European Commission said on Thursday that it had informed four banks that have, in its view, breached European Union antitrust rules in trading SSA bonds in the secondary market that it is investigating them.
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The European Securities and Markets Authority has launched three consultations on how sustainability risks and factors should be integrated into the main regulations governing European securities and investment markets — MiFID II, Ucits, the AIFMD and the Credit Rating Agency Regulation.
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European Union member states are set to soothe banks’ concerns about having too tight a window to change their risk-free euro reference rate from Eonia, with a postponement of the transition to Ester due on Wednesday.
