Sweden

Stockholm County Council mandated two banks on Wednesday to run what will be its third green bond.

Today was a weakish day for stocks, with the Euro Stoxx 50 down 0.5%, but that has not stopped Bain Capital executing its first block trade of shares in Bravida, the Swedish heating, plumbing and electrical contracting company that floated in October. The trade is covered.

Stadshypotek’s newly set up third cover pool, which can be secured by Finnish residential and public sector loans, has been rated Aaa by Moody’s.

Sweden's largest oil refiner, Corral Petroleum Holdings, sold on Friday €625m-equivalent of payment-in-kind toggle notes after dropping dollars for Swedish kronor.

Corral Petroleum Holdings, Sweden's largest oil refiner, on Wednesday released double digit price guidance for its $700m-equivalent of payment-in-kind toggle notes, as it meets investors in the US this week.

Tuesday and Wednesday brought a pair of private equity block trades following first quarter results, but nothing to match the fireworks of Monday night, when Credit Suisse placed £1bn of stock in SABMiller for Kulczyk Investments at a 0.88% discount.

Nynas, the Swedish bitumen and speciality oils producer, has signed €650m of loans in an oversubscribed deal with six banks.

Bookbuilding has begun for three Nordic IPOs, continuing a strong run from the region, which has produced 12 completed IPOs so far in 2016, out of 51 altogether in EMEA.

TriOptima, the over-the-counter post-trade service provider, has completed what it said was the first compression cycle for cleared Swedish Krona interest rate swaps.

Covered bond borrowers in the UK, Sweden, France, New Zealand and the Netherlands met with strong receptions for their transactions this week, which collectively raised nearly €6bn.

The short end of the dollar curve is enjoying a purple patch, with public sector borrowers drawing big books and pricing with much lower new issue premiums than earlier in the year.

Caisse Française de Financement Local (Caffil) and Länsförsäkringar Hypotek (LF Hyp) got strong receptions for their covered bonds on Tuesday as investors had plenty of fresh money to put to work at the start of what is likely to be a relatively dry quarter.