Sweden

Atlas, the Swedish industrial machinery maker, on Monday launched a €500m 10 year note, the first bond roadshow by a Nordic corporate borrower in three months.

Pricing rather than size was the focus for public sector borrowers in the dollar market this week, although overly aggressive pricing was not the reason for one issuer having to pull back from bringing a tap issue.

Swedish Export Credit Corporation (SEK) has cancelled plans to sell a tap of its January 2019 global floating rate notes on Tuesday, due to a problem with the documentation for the reopening.

A pair of public sector borrowers mandated banks on Monday to run small taps of dollar bonds, a theme that SSA bankers expect to run for the next few weeks.

BC Partners sold a 7.8% stake in Com Hem, the Swedish cable TV operator and broadband provider, through an accelerated bookbuild led by Morgan Stanley on Monday night.

Shares in SSAB, the Nordic steel producer, have risen by 11% since the company announced the completion of its oversubscribed Skr5bn ($599m) rights issue on Friday.

Cloetta, the Swedish confectionery company, has agreed Skr3.7bn ($430m) of unsecured loans with a group of four Nordic banks, its first ever syndicated loan.

Swedish car safety specialist Autoliv has refinanced a $1.1bn revolving credit facility, with two banks leaving and two joining the syndicate. Deals in the region have seen rival lenders increase their share of bookrunning volumes this year.

One of Nordea’s Stockholm-based co-heads of debt capital markets is said to have stepped down from the post.

SSM Holding, a leading Swedish builder of flats, is preparing to list on the Stockholm exchange, the company said in a statement on Tuesday morning.

Swedbank has made a number of changes in its investment bank group as well as its large corporates and financial institutions (LC&I) division.

Sandvik, one of the last Nordic borrowers to refinance as the regional holidays kick off, this week signed a Skr9bn-equivalent credit facility with two banks leaving the syndicate.