n Deutsche Bank reinforced its hegemony in the Portuguese ABS market this week, introducing yet another new issuer - Interbanco, a specialist car finance bank owned by the SGC SGPS group. Silk Finance Ltd issued Eu101.2m of bonds in two tranches, rated AAA and A by Fitch IBCA and Standard & Poor's. Class 'A', worth Eu92.1m, priced at 35bp over three month Euribor with a 4.5 year average life, while the Eu9.1m of 'B' notes came at 75bp over with an average life of 6.9 years. Price talk last week had been 32bp area and 70bp area.
July 30, 1999