UniCredit
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Münchener Hypothekenbank was the only financial institution to issue a euro bond this week, selling a senior non-preferred deal on Wednesday. The German lender attracted demand roughly similar to the bond's size of €250m, set from the start. -
Covered bond deals issued on Tuesday by the Swedish Covered Bond Corp (SCBC) and UniCredit Bank Austria were priced tightly but the market proved softer than recent sessions and price sensitivity limited the Swedish bank’s size ambitions.
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Spanish infrastructure and renewable energy company Acciona has returned to the Schuldschein market with a €150m-minimum triple tranche transaction. As lenders begin to loosen lines to Italy and Spain, arrangers said there may be more borrowers from those countries to come.
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A weakened corporate bond market on Thursday did not dissuade Telenor, the Norwegian telecoms company, from issuing a €2.5bn triple tranche deal. Competing for investors' attention was unrated Symrise, the German flavours and fragrances group, which managed to slash its pricing by 25bp-30bp without losing investors.
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Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK) placed a $500m seven year bond on Wednesday inside its own curve and at its tightest ever spread to the Russian sovereign, according to a lead manager on the deal.
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Austria’s Prinzhorn Holding has launched a €200m Schuldschein, with the packaging and recycling group bringing the one of the largest deals to hit screens in a spree of deals trying to beat the summer lull
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Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK)’s $500m seven year bond drew a book in excess of $1.5bn on Wednesday morning allowing leads to tighten initial guidance, which they said offered a 30bp new issue concession.
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Thales, the French defence company, slipped a €500m no-grow three year issue into the bond market on Tuesday, alongside Vodafone's much bigger deal, and after another three-trancher from Becton Dickinson on Monday. All three deals' short dated tranches were priced tightly.
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UniCredit's London-based head of corporate loan syndication for central and eastern Europe, Russia and the CIS has retired.
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Russian Rail’s debut green Eurobond last week met with strong demand, but some investors had reservations about buying green bonds from a company owned by the Russian state and used to transport fossil fuels. Antonio Keglevich, UniCredit’s head of sustainability bond origination, responded to the criticism.
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Thursday’s corporate bond new issue action in Europe confirmed the picture presented on Wednesday: that investors were determined not to let macroeconomic issues bother them, and were piling into new issues. The day was less blemished than the previous one had been by volatility, enabling issuers to get some very tight spreads.
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