Credit Suisse

Royal Bank of Canada has sold the third Canadian covered bond in sterling this year, landing its £1.25bn deal at a spread identical to those of its two peers. Meanwhile, Münchener Hypothekenbank is set to join the sterling spree in the coming days with the first fixed rate covered bond in the currency since 2018.

A succession of debut labelled deals are filling the FIG pipeline as issuers look to make use of the last window ahead of the summer break. ESG bonds from SpareBank 1 SR-Bank and Banco BPM are set to join the already mandated Banca Popolare di Sondrio and Arion Bank in the market later this week.

LGT Bank, a private bank owned by the Princely House of Liechtenstein, priced its return to non-preferred format in under two hours on Monday, while managing to bump up the size and land inside fair value.

South Korea’s busy IPO market is continuing to pump out deals, with the latest listings coming from Kakao Pay and Covid-19 test maker SD Biosensor. But issuers still have to be realistic, as Krafton found out when it shot for, but missed, the country’s largest ever IPO.

Macquarie sold its first group level bond in the Swiss franc market on Thursday, harnessing an “astonishing” number of investors to twice increase the size and land inside its euro curve.

Credit Suisse has hired a new head of debt capital markets for Australia.

The Bank of Nova Scotia’s Chilean subsidiary turned to the Swiss franc for its debut international bond sale on Tuesday, achieving a cost of funding well inside what it could have achieved in the domestic market.

Macquarie announced the mandate on Wednesday for its first group level Swiss franc bond, to be sold in the coming days.

Repsol, the Spanish petrochemicals company, made its first foray into sustainability-linked bonds on Tuesday, though some of the power was taken out of the deal by investors judging the level too tight for a triple-B rated issuer.

Acciona Energia, the Spanish renewable energy company, is due to price its IPO at €26.73 a share, the bottom of the initial range, having closed order books on Tuesday afternoon, according to sources close to the transaction.

Kindstar Globalgene Technology and Dexin Services Group both rolled out their Hong Kong IPOs on Tuesday.

RAG Stiftung, the foundation set up by the German government to finance the discontinuation of coal mining in the Ruhr region, has sold its remaining shares in Stadler Rail, the Swiss maker of rolling stock, via an accelerated bookbuild on Monday evening.