Tuesday, April 19, 2016

UPDATE 1-UBI to test appetite for Italian subordinated debt




(Adds circumstance, quotes) By Alice Gledhill LONDON, April 20 (IFR) - UBI Banca is preparing to subject the
twelvemonth's get-go Grade 2 hamper in euros from an Italian cant, a
important essay of appetency for subordinated debt from one of the
state's littler lenders as the governing tries neaten its
disruptive banking sphere. Giorgio Erasmi, caput of support, and Laura Ferraris, caput of
investor dealings, volition encounter investors in Milan, London and
Paris from Thursday 21 April to Tuesday 26 April.

The authorisation follows the annunciation by the Italian
governing that the area's fitter banks, including UBI,
and otc fiscal institutions bequeath add to a new store
called Atlante to reinforcement weaker lenders. Italian Level 2 spreads sustain rallied 20bp to 25bp since so,
supported farther by a oecumenical betterment in commercialise tint.




Intesa's 500m Apr 25s, e.g., get tightened approximately
20bp since conclusion Monday to swaps positive highschool 250s, according to
Eikon prices.

"It's a rarefied gens and ok liked domestically though
not so fountainhead known internationally, and their great levels and
NPLs are emphatically compensate up thither in footing of tone," aforesaid a
banker on the batch. UBI is rated Baa2/BBB-/BBB/BBBH at the elderly grade. JP Morgan leave be world-wide coordinator, conjointly
Barclays, Cite Suisse, HSBC, Morgan Stanley and Natixis.

(Coverage by Alice Gledhill, Redaction by Helene Durand, Julian
Baker)

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