RBC brings Canadian covered bonds to the fore

Royal Bank of Canada has launched its €15 billion covered bond programme with a jumbo issue in the European covered bond market. The deal is Canada’s first ever covered bond.

Nick Morgan, RBC

“We are not ruling out other currencies, but our objective is to build a curve in the European market”
Nick Morgan, RBC

RBC presented the programme during an extensive roadshow, its first for debt investors, covering 15 cities in Europe and culminating in London and Zurich. Before embarking on the roadshow, there was concern at the bank that investors would not be sufficiently prepared for the issue in terms of the attention and focus they could give to a covered bond from a new issuer from a completely new market.

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