Crédit Agricole
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Europe’s high grade corporate bond issuers had a second tough day running on Thursday, as secondary spreads inched wider and investors proved lukewarm to new issuance. -
Eurostar, the company that runs trains through the Channel Tunnel between London and Europe, has signed a £250m commercial financing package, months after it begged the UK government for bailout funding.
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Europe’s corporate bond buyers shied away from riskier deals on Wednesday as equity markets plunged, leaving a junk rated hybrid from SES to limp over the line while other credits fared better.
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KKR, the US private equity firm, has agreed to buy John Laing in a cash deal that values the UK infrastructure developer at £2bn. KKR will fund the purchase using a mix of equity and debt.
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Ryanair, the Irish budget airline, landed a far more solid bond issue on Tuesday than shopping centre operator Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield had a day earlier, as both companies try to recover in sectors ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic.
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CDP Financial, one of Canada's largest public pension asset managers, joined three other public sector borrowers in the dollar market on Tuesday to sell its debut green bond.
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CaixaBank extended its social bond curve with a non-preferred senior deal on Tuesday, raising €1bn with what was its first deal since it completed a merger with Bankia in late March.
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Property developer China Vanke Co brought a rare investment grade-rated corporate deal to the offshore renminbi (CNH) bond market on Monday, pricing the deal inside its dollar curve after a warm response from investors.
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Europe’s high grade corporate bond investors had an array of novel trades to consider on Monday, with debutants and a rare antipodean issuer marketing euro transactions.
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Crédit Agricole CIB has conducted what it believes is a unique green bond issue for its Taiwan branch, in which the issuer, investors and underwriters have together made a “solidarity” payment to a charity, Plastic Odyssey, which works to remove plastic pollution from the oceans.
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Île-de-France Mobilités, the state-owned authority for public transport in the Île-de-France region, is set to make its first trip to the green bond market. The borrower intends to use green bonds for around 60% of its financing needs until the end of 2025.
