Portugal
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Caixa Geral de Depósitos attracted a solid €2bn of demand on Thursday for Portugal’s first additional tier one, as the bank made important headway on its recapitalisation plan. But market participants were divided over calculating fair value for the risky debt instrument. -
Euronext today agreed to a strategic partnership with Morningstar which will bring new indices and derivatives contracts to the pan-European exchange within two weeks.
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Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) took advantage of buoyant market conditions that followed Wednesday’s US Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, quickly attracting an oversubscribed order book for a dollar perpetual non-call five year additional tier one (AT1). At the same time, Caixa Geral mandated leads to roadshow a euro-denominated AT1.
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Shares in Banco Comercial Português rose as much as 9.3% on Monday after it announced late on Friday the successful completion of its €1.33bn rights issue to strengthen its core tier one capital ratio and finance the redemption of contingent convertible bonds owned by the Portuguese government.
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Energias de Portugal drove into the euro bond market on Tuesday with a €600m long six year transaction that tapped into investors’ taste for crossover credit.
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Shares in Banco Comercial Português, the Portuguese bank, closed 15% higher on Tuesday after they began trading ex-rights ahead of its €1.33bn rights issue to strengthen its capital buffers and repay contingent convertible bonds owned by the Portuguese government.
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Portugal found the best possible medicine to a rising fever in its bond yields by building a large order book on Wednesday for its first syndication of 2017. Attention now turns to Italy, which faces a crucial rating review by DBRS on Friday.
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Portugal took out around a fifth of its funding programme for 2017 on Wednesday, printing a €3bn 10 year deal. Bankers away from the trade said pricing looked a little cheap — but at the same time defended the sovereign’s debt office for playing it safe to win size.
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Shares in Banco Comercial Português, the Portuguese bank, have fallen 21% since it unveiled plans late on Monday for a €1.33bn rights issue to strengthen its core tier one capital ratio and finance the redemption of contingent convertible bonds owned by the Portuguese government.
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Portugal will kick off its funding year with a 10 year euro benchmark, mandating for the deal on Tuesday shortly after announcing its bond issuance target for 2017.
