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Jun 20th, 2013
Aktia Bank sold a Eu500m no-grow five year covered bond on Monday, successfully inaugurating a new programme the Finnish group has set up to take over its covered bond funding from Aktia Real Estate Mortgage Bank.
Posted in About Us, Countries
Tags: Aktia Bank, Aktia REMB, Finland
Jun 20th, 2013
Pohjola Bank priced its debut Samurai issue on Wednesday, a ¥30bn (Eu235m) three tranche deal, which the group’s head of funding said marked the beginning of a long term presence that made the work on setting up the programme worthwhile.
Posted in Finland
Tags: Finland, Pohjola Bank, Samurai, Svenska Handelsbanken
Jun 13th, 2013
Aktia has roadshowed its new Aktia Bank plc covered bond programme and Crédit Agricole CIB senior covered bond analyst Florian Eichert explores the differences between this and previous Aktia Real Estate Mortgage Bank covered bonds.
Posted in From Crédit Agricole CIB
Tags: Aktia, Aktia Bank, Aktia Real Estate Mortgage Bank, covered bonds, Finland, Finnish
Jun 13th, 2013
Svenska Handelsbanken is set to become the third Nordic issuer to tap the Samurai market within the space of a month, with soft marketing for the Swedish bank’s debut, senior unsecured issue expected to start tomorrow (Friday).
Posted in Finland
Tags: Finland, Finnish, Japan, Pohjola, Samurai, senior unsecured, Svenska Handelsbanken, Sweden, Swedish
Jun 6th, 2013
Pohjola Bank is set to launch its first Samurai issue in the coming weeks, with the Finnish issuer having visited Japan for a deal-related roadshow ahead of the planned senior unsecured transaction.
Posted in Finland
Tags: Finland, Finnish, OP Mortgage Bank, OP-Pohjola, Pohjola, senior unsecured
Jun 6th, 2013
Norway’s SpareBank 1 Boligkreditt was one of four issuers to launch benchmark euro covered bonds this week despite market conditions remaining tricky after the recent turn in sentiment, while Aktia Bank has embarked upon a roadshow ahead of a debut in its new guise.
Posted in Norway
Tags: Aktia Bank, covered bonds, Finland, Finnish, Norway, Norwegian, SpareBank 1 Boligkreditt
May 30th, 2013
Timo Ruotsalainen, managing director, Aktia Real Estate Mortgage Bank, gave Nordic FIs & Covered an update about the Finnish group’s switch to issuing directly out of Aktia Bank, and discussed other developments.
Posted in In conversation
Tags: Aktia Bank, Aktia Real Estate Mortgage Bank, covered bonds, Finland, Finnish
May 9th, 2013
Nordic issuers Pohjola Bank and Nordea tapped into a global rally to price senior unsecured issues in the euro and dollar markets, respectively, on Tuesday, with each achieving attractive levels, according to lead syndicate officials.
Posted in Finland
Tags: Finland, Finnish, Nordea, OP-Pohjola, Pohjola
Feb 14th, 2013
Moody’s affirmed Aktia Bank at A3 yesterday (Wednesday), but revised the outlook from stable to negative, a move that an Aktia official said was to be expected given that the bank will no longer be the central credit institution for the POP and savings banks in Finland.
Posted in Finland
Tags: Aktia, Finland, Finnish
Jan 31st, 2013
The outlook for the Finnish banking system remains negative, said Moody’s yesterday (Wednesday), citing as driving factors its expectations of a continued weak operating environment, increasing household indebtedness, and high reliance on wholesale funding in the context of prevailing capital markets volatility.
Posted in Finland
Tags: Finland, Finnish, Moody's, Nordea Bank Finland