UniCredit
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Airbus has released price talk on a €425m term loan, while First Data, the US payments technology firm, priced its euro term loan at an unusually tight margin on Monday. -
UniCredit and Intesa Sanpaolo both escaped having to deduct the Atlante fund’s rescue of Banca Popolare di Vicenza from their capital. But the firms took very different equity damage from the debut deal, despite each owning a €300m stake. Owen Sanderson reports.
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Banking is a game with rules, and regulators set them. That’s why, when the chips are down, they can change them to make banks look better.
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The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank could add its name to the growing list of public sector green bond issuers, according to its president, as a more seasoned issuer brought its longest dated bond in the format.
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DG Hyp and Deutsche Hypo launched the only two benchmark covered bonds of the week, and though both deals were priced tightly, they attracted a lot of demand.
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Water management provider Suez Environnement on Thursday launched the only deal of the day, a €500m note that printed with a small new issue premium.
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KfW built a more than 2.5 times subscribed book on Thursday for its longest dated green bond ever, drawing praise despite tightening pricing by more basis points than is typical for the issuer.
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US biopharmaceutical firm Johnson & Johnson on Wednesday issued a four tranche bond, including 19 year notes, amid much competition in a market that absorbed 17 deals this week.
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Turkiye Sinai Kalkinma Bankasi (TSKB) has tightened price guidance for the first ever green bond from CEEMEA and demand seems strong enough that it could even be printed inside the development bank’s senior conventional curve.
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German aircraft engine manufacturer MTU Aero Engines issued a €500m seven year convertible bond on Wednesday to refinance a previous vanilla bond more cheaply.
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Escaping the €1.5bn sole underwriting commitment to Banco Popolare di Vicenza, through the establishment of the Atlante rescue fund, cost UniCredit around €118m in capital, according to the bank’s first quarter numbers.
