UniCredit
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Japanese issuers are not frequently seen in the European corporate bond markets, but this week could have two companies going head to head with benchmark euro transactions. Japan Tobacco will sell its first new issues in Europe, while Toyota is better known to investors on the continent. -
LafargeHolcim has returned to the Schuldschein market looking for an initial size equivalent to €300m, across dollar and euro tranches.
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Knorr-Bremse, the historic German manufacturer of brake systems for trucks and trains, has started one of the largest German IPOs of the year, having filed an intention to float document on Monday morning.
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Austria’s FACC has signed a €255m syndicated loan, as the aerospace company consolidates its bilateral credit lines.
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Germany’s largest gas transmission system operator Vier Gas wasted no time on Monday in launching a €500m 10 year corporate bond deal it had marketed to investors last week. The demand it received justified that move.
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The Cover and GlobalCapital held the annual Covered Bond Awards Dinner on Thursday night at BMW Welt in Munich, celebrating the best performers in the market.
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German snack food company Intersnack has launched a €150m-equivalent Schuldschein with euro and sterling tranches — evidence, market players said, of the flexibility of the instrument.
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Italian multi-utility Iren highlighted the improving sentiment around Italian corporate bond issuers when it priced a €500m seven year green bond 15bp tighter than where similarly rated peer 2i Rete had printed a non-green deal the previous week.
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German snack food company Intersnack has launched a €150m-equivalent Schuldschein with euro and sterling tranches — evidence, market players said, of the flexibility of the instrument.
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Dutch registered machinery and vehicle manufacturer CNH Industrial achieved an order book nearly three times oversubscribed for its first corporate bond sale since Standard & Poor’s raised the company rating to BBB.
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The European Investment Bank launched its new line of Sustainability Awareness Bonds on Thursday, with a €500m issue that found keen demand from investors. The EIB hopes the SABs will influence the debate on classification in the world of sustainable finance, including the European Commission’s new official Taxonomy of sustainable economic activities.
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