Corp Bonds - Swiss franc
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Swiss Prime Site, the Olten-headquartered property company, was gifted the full attention of the Swiss market on Tuesday, offering a nine year bond with a healthy new issue premium. -
Temenos, a Genevese vendor of banking software, offered retail investors its fourth Swiss bond on Monday.
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Swiss healthcare firm Roche returned to its native market on Wednesday with a Sfr1.5bn ($1.49bn) triple tranche trade in the largest ‘Matterhorn’ — a deal of Sfr1bn or more — since its last outing in 2012.
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Aduno, the non-cash payments firm owned by Swiss banks, sold a rare Sfr100m ($100.78m) floating rate note on Tuesday. As the Swiss National Bank’s (SNB’s) deposit rates are at minus 0.75%, the Zurich-based firm could capitalise on money market investors’ need to work cash rather than store it.
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SGS, the A3 rated testing and inspection company, offered a nine year bond to a Swiss market in search of corporate paper this week. Books were open for just 45 minutes before the Sfr375m ($378m) maximum mandated size was reached.
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Swiss listed property company Zug Estates offered a Sfr100m ($100m) five year bond to Swiss investors on Tuesday. While the order book for the triple-B notes was oversubscribed , investors were firm in their preference for tenor.
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The Swiss market shed roughly Sfr3bn ($2.93bn) of foreign issuance this year from last year. Expensive basis swaps and cheap funding for investment grade borrowers in euros and dollars drew foreign issuers away. But, if global rates rise next year, the foreign borrowers will return, Swiss bankers say.
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Swiss telecoms company Swisscom took domestic investors on a trip down negative lane on Wednesday as it printed a Sfr200m ($197.5m) eleven year note with a 9bp negative new issue premium.
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Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election went largely unnoticed in key niche currency bond markets on Wednesday morning. Non-core currency bankers were confident pipelines will remain unchanged in Norway, and Switzerland.
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MSC Cruises, the largest European cruise company by number of employees, offered its first public bond to the Swiss market on Thursday. Though bonds from unlisted, private companies can be difficult to sell, a tempting yield and a thorough roadshow encouraged retail investors to hop on board.
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Sonova’s voice was heard on Thursday when it offered an age-defining, odds-defying triple tranche whopper to the Swiss market. All of the Sfr760m ($787.2m) paper matures within five years, half of the paper offers negative yields and none of it left Switzerland.
