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Luxembourg – European Financial Stability Facility today placed a €5 billion 5-year benchmark bond maturing on 5 February 2018. The issuance spread at reoffer was fixed at mid swap plus 17 basis points. This implies a reoffer yield for investors of 1.346%.
Deutsche Bank, HSBC and Royal Bank of Scotland acted as lead managers for this issue.
Today's issue was met with strong demand with close to €7 billion in orders received from investors worldwide.
"European bail out fund chief Klaus Regling says there's been a improvement in sentiment in Europe, thanks to restrusturing and debt reduction."
As head of the ESM permanent bailout fund, Klaus Regling is in charge of preventing a collapse of the euro. In a SPIEGEL ONLINE interview, he discusses German worries over bailouts, the debate over aid for Cyprus and personal attacks against him.
Jan. 24 (Bloomberg) -- European Stability Mechanism head Klaus Regling discusses the region's debt crisis, investment of the 32 billion euros of capital that the fund has received so far and the outlook for Cyprus, Spain and Greece. He speaks with Francine Lacqua on Bloomberg Television's "Countdown" on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
(Source: Bloomberg)
Klaus Regling, managing director of the European Stability Mechanism, tells CNBC that in Europe when the pressure from the market lessens there is a risk of complacency.
Luxembourg – European Financial Stability Facility today launched its 2013 funding programme with the placement of a €6 billion 7-year benchmark bond maturing on 22 January 2020. The issuance spread at reoffer was fixed at mid swap plus 29 basis points. This implies a reoffer yield for investors of 1.612%.
Barclays, Nomura and Société Générale CIB acted as lead managers for this issue. Today's issue was met with very strong demand with over €8.3 billion in orders received from investors worldwide.
Luxembourg – The European Stability Mechanism (ESM) launched its short-term funding programme today with a 3-month bill auction. The auction was met with strong demand, attracting over €6.2 billion in bids of which over €3.1 billion were non-competitive. The ESM sold €1.927 billion in 3-month bills at a weighted average price of 100.00819% with a maturity of 11 April 2013. The weighted average yield was -0.0324%. The bid/cover ratio was 3.2. Auctions are carried out by the ESM using the Deutsche Bundesbank’s ESM Bidding System (EBS).
Luxembourg - European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) today announced their funding programmes for 2013.
ESM appoints David Vegara as Deputy Managing Director with responsibility for banking
Luxembourg – ESM has appointed David Vegara as Deputy Managing Director with responsibility for banking. The ESM’s Managing Director Klaus Regling said: “I am delighted that David Vegara is taking over this key responsibility. Banking issues are increasingly central to the ESM and David has unique competences in this field.” David Vegara also becomes a member of the ESM Management Board.