The Netherlands
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Altice, the fast-growing French cable telecoms investment group, raised €1.61bn of new capital today (Thursday October 1) with an intraday accelerated bookbuild, to finance its acquisition of Cablevision, the US cable company.
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Rabobank has said the German response to total loss-absorbing capacity (TLAC) rules places senior unsecured debt at risk, and advised against its adoption as a Europe-wide solution.
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There is vulnerability to climate change, and then there’s the Netherlands. Two thirds of the country is vulnerable to flooding; about 26% of it is actually below sea level; it is densely populated, and its biggest city, Amsterdam, is right in the firing line; and it is traversed by two of Europe’s great rivers, the Rhine and Meuse, which have been bursting their banks since before there were humans to notice. Short of the Maldives or a handful of Pacific Islands, it’s hard to think of a nation that has more reason to worry about rising sea levels. -
Schiphol Group, the owner of Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, on Monday sold €300m of secured notes, in a European corporate bond market that bankers say has overcome its recent anxiety about macroeconomic issues.
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Market conditions were far from conducive this week, but that didn’t stop nine issuers from raising a collective €7bn, which in several cases was done in spectacular style.
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ABN Amro surprised the covered bond market on Tuesday with a deal that was both punchy in size, tenor and coupon. The 15 year transaction illustrated strong demand for duration and confounded the view that the market is oversupplied.
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Municipality Finance is set to hit the road to showcase an upcoming debut in the additional tier one (AT1) market — and at least one other European agency could follow suit.
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Dutch chemical company Royal DSM issued into a quieter corporate bond market on Tuesday but encountered much the same conditions as those who jostled for attention on Monday.
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ING in the Netherlands has won the consent of investors to amend terms of 10 covered bonds from a hard to soft bullet maturity. The result comes after a number of changes to the documentation of its larger and more established programme. The alternative €5bn soft bullet programme will only ever be used for placing bonds internally, the issuer confirmed .
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Dutch chemical company Royal DSM issued into a quieter corporate bond market on Tuesday, but encountered much the same conditions as those who jostled for attention on Monday.
