UniCredit
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Hospital operator Ameos has scheduled a bank meeting for Wednesday morning for a €510m loan refinancing, as banks scramble for deals. -
Anglo-Swiss commodity trading and mining company Glencore closed a $7.3bn one year revolving credit line on Wednesday.
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Crédit Agricole issued one of three euro benchmark covered bonds this week, attracting demand that topped the combined interest seen in deals issued by Swedbank and HVB.
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The European Financial Stability Facility on Tuesday priced a dual tranche deal that bankers are describing as possibly its greatest ever, laying to rest some of its other long dated trades this year that drew criticism. A pair of other issuers have also hit screens in a euro market enjoying what one syndicate head called “probably the best conditions we’ve seen in months”.
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UniCredit subsidiary, HVB, issued a tightly priced euro Pfandbrief at the long end of the curve on Tuesday, while Deutsche Pfandbriefbank (Pbb) issued at the short end in dollars but paid up for the privilege compared to what it would have cost in euros.
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The result of the first round of the French election has imbued the markets with a fresh confidence, prompting the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) to mandate banks for its third dual tranche trade in a row.
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Rare covered bond issuers from Portugal and Spain made a surprise return to the market this week after long absences with transactions that, under the circumstances, were very well received.
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Two Russian borrowers are lining up bonds for next week with Credit Bank of Moscow set to issue its second capital trade of the year, and PhosAgro looking to finance a buyback with a new issue.
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Banco Santander Totta did well to raise €1bn of seven year funding on Thursday at a record level through govies, given the damaging ramifications for peripheral Europe that would follow if France’s far left and far right presidential candidates made it through to the second round of voting.
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Portugal’s Banco Santander Totta has mandated leads for the first Portuguese covered bond since October 2015.
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Medical diagnostics firm Unilabs launched a €250m high yield bond with a roadshow this week, to back its acquisition of Alpha Medical. Nomad Foods is also roadshowing a €500m deal.
