Danske Bank’s second quarter results announced today (Thursday) beat expectations but the bank lowered its guidance for the full year. The Danish lender reported after a slew of results from other major Nordic banks in July.

Nordea Bank has filed a shelf registration to issue up to ¥500bn of Samurai paper and the same in Uridashi format, and is targeting four Samurai tranches for pricing next week, according to bankers close to the project.

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.

Mats Anderson, Cheuvreux bank equity analyst, reviews the first round of Nordic Q1 results.

Nordic FIG supply this week was limited to a £400m three year senior unsecured FRN for Sweden’s Nordea Bank today (Thursday), although a SpareBank 1 SMN senior unsecured deal is still in the pipeline and others are said to be monitoring global market conditions.

SpareBank 1 SR Bank and SEB took advantage of strong market conditions and compressed spreads to tap the euro senior unsecured market this week, while Nordea Bank made the most of a good issuance opportunity in sterling.

The Swedish government may sell down all of part of its remaining 13% stake in Nordea, according to Sweden’s Dagbladet.