Sweden
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Kommuninvest kept up this week’s trend for tightly priced short end dollar deals as it achieved its tightest ever spread to swaps on Thursday. Big demand for short dollar paper is creating a “bid-only” market, according to bankers. -
Kommuninvest is set to complete a trio of three year dollar benchmarks from SSAs this week, after Nordic Investment Bank comfortably priced in the tenor on Wednesday.
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One of the public sector bond market's best known and liked heads of funding has quit the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to join SEB.
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Euro corporate bond issuance returned on Friday after a blank day due to Thursday’s European Central Bank meeting. As the ECB’s president, Mario Draghi, said nothing to unsettle markets, US machinery maker John Deere and Italian oil and gas company Eni both priced deals in euros before the weekend, while Sweden's Akelius Property did the same in sterling.
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Nordea announced on Wednesday that it was moving its headquarters from Sweden, where it has been since it was formed through a series of mergers in 2000, to Finland, where it will be supervised by the European Central Bank, as part of the ‘Banking Union’ arrangements.
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Debut benchmark covered bonds issued this week by Banco di Desio e della Brianza and Nykredit were preceded by Danske Hypotek’s inaugural deal, and with new names expected to follow later this year, the number of active issuers should reach new heights.
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Nordea announced on Wednesday it would move its administrative headquarters from Sweden to Finland, allowing it to submit to supervision by Europe’s Single Supervisory Mechanism.
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Three Swedish banks were busy in the preferred senior market this week, with SBAB Bank and Svenska Handelsbanken pricing new deals and Länsförsäkringar Bank (LF Bank) lining up for its debut.
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Swedish property manager Fastighets AB Balder printed the year’s first hybrid bond with speculative grade ratings on Thursday, after investors oversubscribed its €350m offering by 4.5 times.
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Fastighets AB Balder, the Swedish property manager, began roadshowing for a €350m hybrid bond in euros and Swedish kronor on Tuesday. It may become the second Nordic borrower to issue in an otherwise quiet euro high yield market during the summer break.
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Two holidays and September’s European Central Bank meeting will mean the next two weeks will offer short windows for issuance, but the success of the two deals that priced this week will inspire corporate bond issuers looking at the market.
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