Eurohypo: biggest in the market

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Nobody issues more Pfandbriefe than Eurohypo. With about €68 billion of jumbo Pfandbriefe outstanding, it has the biggest share of the highly liquid, euro-denominated market of deals worth more than €500 million.

“We have about a 12% share of the euro covered bond market as a benchmark issuer,” says Franz-Josef Kaufmann, Eurohypo’s head of capital markets. “We are a benchmark issuer with a clear strategy of doing one or two deals a year of a minimum size of €2 billion but not more than €3 billion, even after increases.