UniCredit
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A pair of banks made opportunistic moves into a euro market buoyed by positive headlines around a potential US stimulus bill on Wednesday. France’s Crédit Mutuel Arkéa and Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group each tapped for senior paper, raising €500m a piece. -
Michelin, the French tyre maker, has signed a €2.5bn sustainability-linked revolving credit facility with a three year maturity, as loans bankers say the market has become more nuanced towards maturities since the onset of Covid-19 made many of them tighten terms.
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UnipolSai Assicurazioni was nearly three times subscribed for a restricted tier one (RT1) this week — the first of its kind in Italy. An attractive coupon helped to offset any concerns about Italian sovereign risk or a lack of liquidity in the RT1 market.
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Criteria Caixa is sounding out investors for a new seven year unsecured euro bond: its first at this tenor in over five years.
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The European Union impressed as it sold its highly anticipated debut syndicated bond under its Support to Mitigate Unemployment Risks in an Emergency (SURE) funding programme on Tuesday, with the deal receiving record breaking demand at minimal new issue premiums.
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Swiss duty free operator Dufry has finished its Sfr820m at-market rights issue, which has enabled Advent International and Chinese e-commerce firm to take large strategic stakes in the company.
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The European Union finally hit screens on Monday afternoon to announce the highly anticipated debut syndicated bond under its Support to Mitigate Unemployment Risks in an Emergency (SURE) funding programme.
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Italian insurer UnipolSai Assicurazioni will be hoping to launch its first restricted tier one (RT1) bond this week, after which it could retire a pair of its lower quality tier two instruments.
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The European Stability Mechanism wasted no time in getting its final trade of the year done on Monday ahead of the European Union’s highly anticipated debut syndicated bond under its Support to Mitigate Unemployment Risks in an Emergency (SURE) funding programme.
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It was a moderate week for supply in the primary euro public sector bond market but the issuers that did come found ample demand, setting up a decent backdrop for the expected arrival of the European Union’s big borrowing programme next week.
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