Little appetite for reopening ‘Pandora’s Box’ post EBA
EMF-ECBC secretary general Luca Bertalot and others questioned the appetite for pressing ahead with EBA recommendations that might only deliver marginal gains during an S&P webinar last week, but talked up the potential rewards of working towards third country equivalence.
Lloyds reaps tight rewards in strong £1bn covered return
Lloyds’ first sterling benchmark covered bond in almost three years, a £1bn five year FRN, yesterday attracted over £1.75bn of orders and achieved the tightest pricing on any Sonia-linked deal in over a year, with its scarcity value and a buoyant underlying market cited as factors in its success.
‘Pragmatic’ Caffil ends 2025 with positive €1.25bn trade
Caffil wrapped up the Sfil group’s 2025 funding programme last week, adopting a pragmatic approach to successfully navigate French political developments to attract some €4.2bn of orders to a €1.25bn long seven year covered bond, Gonzague Veillas at Sfil told The CBR.
Scarcity helps Hypo Noe to ‘fantastic’ long fives result
Hypo Noe Landesbank für Niederösterreich und Wien generated one of its biggest ever order books for a €500m no-grow long five year covered bond today, with a dearth of covered bond supply and especially Austrian paper cited as contributing to some €2.3bn of orders and zero NIP.
Bawag creates Austro-Dutch covered as Knab votes pass
Bawag last week gained bondholder consent to take over as issuer of the covered bonds of acquiree Knab, in a move that creates unique cross-border issuance subject to the rules of both Austrian and Dutch jurisdictions.
Winkler-Viti joins BayernLB after Berlin Hyp departure
Bodo Winkler-Viti has joined Bayerische Landesbank’s group treasury as senior director, capital markets funding, arriving at BayernLB after his recent departure from Berlin Hyp.
Enhanced profile helps DBS to biggest Singapore sterling book
DBS achieved what is understood to be the biggest order book for a Singaporean sterling covered bond on Monday, attracting more than £2.2bn of orders to a £1bn three year floating rate note, with the issuer’s and jurisdiction’s regular presence in the UK market cited as contributing to the success.
Nationwide sells first UK fixed sterling in decade on reverse bid
Nationwide Building Society last Tuesday issued the first fixed rate sterling covered bond from a UK financial institution in over a decade, a £500m 4.125% five year deal via BMO, Lloyds, Nomura and Santander.
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