UniCredit
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Ford, the US car maker, offered investment grade bond investors the chance to dip into high yield on Tuesday, while its rival Nissan Motor is lining up a seven tranche behemoth bond issue that will create a euro curve out to eight years. -
UniCredit’s German subsidiary, HVB, unearthed demand of €2bn for its €1bn eight year Pfandbrief that priced on Tuesday. The deal will be followed by a non-deal roadshow for a second issuer from Japan.
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KPN, the Dutch telecommunications company, made its first outing in the senior bond market for four years on Monday. One lead manager expected the trade to give the issuer’s curve a strong lift.
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Europe’s high grade corporate market continued to offer plenty of demand for riskier structures this week, with multiple hybrids again taking up screen space.
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Norilsk Nickel, the Russian metal and mining company, was set to issue a benchmark dollar bond on Thursday evening, just months after it was found responsible for a series of major diesel spills.
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Senior deals from Banco de Sabadell and Mediobanca underlined the pricing benefits of printing in green formats this week, with both coming inside conventional curves. Other issuers could be tempted to follow.
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Daimler blasted far through its conventional bond curve with its €1bn debut green deal on Thursday, in a first for the European automotive industry that is expected to herald a spate of similar issuance — and could reset expectations about the difference between green and conventional bond pricing.
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Banco de Sabadell on Wednesday looked to replicate the success of Mediobanca earlier this week in capitalising on appetite for green bonds. Appetite for the Spanish lender’s inaugural green preferred senior bond led it to print the deal through fair value.
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Germany received overwhelming support for its debut green bond on Wednesday, which was sold via syndication and twinned with a conventional Bund of the same maturity and coupon in what it is a brand new structure for issuing green debt.
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Corporate bond investors had another chance to pick up some spread on Tuesday after August had closed with a flurry of hybrids, with crossover trades from French nuclear power company Orano and Italian electricity company Enel.
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Mediobanca was able to attract demand seven times the size of its new €500m senior bond on Tuesday, which was its debut green deal. The high demand allowed the issuer to launch with a negative new issue premium based on its conventional curve.
