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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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Instituto de Crédito Oficial (Ico) is eyeing up its first ever green bond in 2019 following a series of social bonds. -
Kommuninvest was the sole dollar benchmark in the public sector market this week, getting in just a day ahead of Thanksgiving to reach its 2018 funding target. Dollar SSA supply is likely to be limited for the rest of the year, but there is room for "opportunistic" trades at the short end, according to bankers.
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The next few months in the run-up to Brexit will bring upheaval for debt capital markets and syndicate teams at London’s investment banks, as they work out which roles will have to be done from the European Union and which staff to move. But the pressure will not cease on March 29, as national regulators have considerable scope to compel banks to relocate jobs. Jon Hay reports.
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Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten failed to reach full subscription for its €750m November 2025 sustainability bond this week, with the issuer attributing the lack of orders to the volatile market conditions.
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Between sleeping and waking, there is a middle phase: you realise it’s time to get up, but can’t quite bear to admit you need to get out of bed. London’s debt capital markets teams are in that zone. Brexit’s alarm has sounded, but few are eager to haul themselves into the cold air of Frankfurt or Paris.
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MTN dealers are “hopeful rather than optimistic” that in January issuers will avoid what they said had been a trend in 2018 of waiting for market conditions to improve before bringing deals, then shelving trades as conditions worsen.
