Scotiabank
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Peru’s efforts to make its domestic bond curve Euroclearable appeared to pay dividends on Monday after 70% of demand for its first deal in the format came from non-Latin American investors.
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Peru will begin meeting fixed income investors on Tuesday in preparation for a benchmark-sized Peruvian sol-denominated bond of “intermediate to long maturity”, according to a note sent to investors.
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Cyprus, entering an otherwise quiet market, has picked banks for a seven year euro benchmark to be sold on Tuesday.
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New deals marketed this week by US borrowers Owens-Illinois and Federal-Mogul pushed reverse Yankee issuance to 25% of the €22bn of euro high yield issuance so far in 2017.
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US car rental company Avis Budget Group called in on European investors on Wednesday with a refinancing that extended a busy pipeline of reverse Yankee high yield deals in euros.
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KfW and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development took full advantage of a strong environment to sell dollar benchmarks on Tuesday. Further dollar issuance is rumoured this week — with conditions so good that deals may come despite potential volatility from US president Donald Trump making his first speech to Congress during the New York evening on Tuesday night.
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Jeanswear maker Levi Strauss priced on Thursday a new refinancing deal in euros, having been absent from the European high yield bond market for seven years.
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Peruvian mortgage lender Fondo Mivivienda on Tuesday found a high level of appetite for local currency paper with a $600m-equivalent dual tranche deal of which three quarters was in Nuevo soles.
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As many as eight covered bonds were launched across three currencies this week, the vaguely discernible pattern suggesting better interest for the larger deals with intermediate maturities and particularly those from non-eurozone issuers where liquidity is most likely to be better.