UniCredit
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SpareBank1 Boligkreditt, Aareal Bank and Nordea took advantage of strong demand for five year paper to issue oversubscribed deals this week, paying virtually no new issue concession.
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DBS Bank issued its long-awaited debut euro benchmark this week with a choice of tenor and pricing that worked well for for the Singaporean lender. It may return later this year. -
Sparebank 1 Boligkreditt and Aareal Bank issued well oversubscribed covered bonds on Wednesday, paying virtually no new issue concession. Both banks took advantage of enduring demand for five year tenors, while for Aareal the issue was cheaper than the European Central Bank’s term liquidity.
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The pipeline for euro issuance is filling up once again as the European Investment Bank looks to raise funds at 10 years, although a deal from KfW on Tuesday appeared to struggle to reach €1bn.
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Douglas, the German retailer, launched a refinancing of a €1.37bn seven year term loan ‘B’ on Tuesday, as the firm comes out of soft call protection from its last repricing in mid-2016.
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Novomatic, the Austria headquartered gambling company, is syndicating a five year revolving credit facility this month as it looks to combine its credit facilities in a single line.
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UniCredit has announced several changes to senior management in its markets business, with the retirement of corporate treasury sales boss and deputy head of markets Kevin Krespi.
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Italy took two steps forward in fixing its embattled banking system on Thursday, as UniCredit won shareholder approval for its €13bn rights issue, while UBI Banca shares surged on the news that it will seek to raise €400m to support a takeover of three retail banks bailed out in 2015.
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Ten year Pfandbrief €500m deals issued this week by NordLB and Bawag were narrowly oversubscribed even with the support of the Eurosystem.
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Auckland Council on Thursday pulled off a 7bp tightening for its first ever public deal in euros. The trade was joined in the market by paper from the City of Hamburg and Bpifrance Financement.
