HSBC

The Republic of Indonesia veered off its usual funding plan by heading into the bond market this week with a dollar-euro combination trade, at a time when it is feeling the brunt of a big spike in Covid-19 cases. But the stability in secondary market trading and a fall in US Treasuries offered the sovereign an opportunity to top up its coffers, writes Morgan Davis.

French investment grade corporate issuers Alstom and Covivio Hotels ignored growing worries over rising coronavirus infections on Tuesday to haul in bumper demand for new bonds.

CPPIB Capital, the issuing entity for Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, launched its first ever syndicated bond linked to the secured overnight financing rate on Tuesday, impressing onlookers with its size.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has returned to the long end of the covered bond market sell its first private placements in the format since 2019.

Three Chinese real estate developers sold green and sustainable bonds on Monday, adding further momentum to the booming asset class.

ICBC International Holdings priced a three year bond on Monday with the support of a 22-member syndicate team.

A pair of SSA borrowers are set to squeeze a pair of benchmarks in on Tuesday just before the summer holidays period commences in earnest.

Vilogia, a French social housing company, has shrugged off being downgraded by Moody’s and having its rating withdrawn by Fitch, printing a rare floating rate note that was driven by a reverse enquiry.

Europe’s high grade bond investors will have a chance to buy debt from one of the sectors most battered by the coronavirus pandemic next week, after French real estate investment trust Covivio Hotels mandated for a trade on Friday.

As Western companies operating in Hong Kong await the details of a warning from the US State Department about the risks of doing business in the special administrative region, analysts say the growing rift between China and the US is putting HSBC in an especially uncomfortable position.

Five real estate companies from Greater China made their way into the dollar bond market on Thursday, appealing to investors with short tenors and juicy new issue premiums.

A bulging pipeline of business is livening up the UAE’s formerly sleepy equity capital markets, after a series of eye-catching transactions in recent weeks following the biggest IPO in the area for almost three years.