KLP Boligkreditt issued its first covered bond on 5 September, a Nkr500m (Eu60m) five year floating rate note, and an official at KLP Banken said that a next covered bond issue is already being worked on, with Nkr5bn expected by the end of 2015.
Norway’s KLP Boligkreditt is close to making its covered bond debut, with a domestic issue targeted for launch this month, according to an official at the issuer, after Moody’s yesterday (Wednesday) assigned a provisional rating to the covered bonds.
Nordea Eiendomskreditt made its sterling covered bond debut today (Thursday) with a £500m (Eu627m, Nkr5.11bn) three year FRN that was nearly twice subscribed and said to be the tightest deal in the currency so far, also coming inside theoretical euro new issue levels.
Changes to capital requirements announced by the Norwegian ministry of finance that are in line with the latest EU Capital Requirements Directive (CRD) are credit positive for the country’s banks, Moody’s said today (Thursday), in that they will strengthen the financial institutions’ capital buffers.
DNB’s second quarter pre-tax profits fell short of consensus expectations as the Norwegian bank announced its results today (Thursday), but it reported a CET1 level that suggests it “is becoming more like its Swedish peers and competitors”, according to a Kepler Cheuvreux analyst.
The designation of DNB, Nordea Bank Norge and Kommunalbanken as systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs) by the Norwegian Ministry of Finance is credit positive, Moody’s said on Monday, noting that an FSA proposal to include regional players was not taken up.
SpareBank 1 SMN sold its second euro fixed rate senior unsecured benchmark on Tuesday, a Eu500m no-grow five year issue that was priced 35bp tighter than its debut last year and, according to an official at the Norwegian bank, came with a narrower spread differential to its peers.
Norway’s KLP Banken is eyeing a first mortgage-backed covered bond issue out of new entity KLP Boligkreditt in the coming months, after having received approval for the specialist institution from the Norwegian FSA (Finanstilsynet) last month.
SpareBank 1 SR Bank sold a Eu750m seven year senior unsecured issue yesterday (Thursday), the Norwegian bank’s largest euro benchmark and a deal that adds a new longest dated point to its curve.
The impact of the Norwegian housing market on covered bonds has been an ongoing topic for quite some time now. After strong growth of over 300% in the last 20 years, we’ve started to see the beginning of a correction in Norwegian house prices more recently.