Popular Places A €1,000M Mortgage Bond Issue At 1%

25 March 2015 – Expansión

The entity has completed a 10-year mortgage bond issue amounting to €1,000 million.

The placement carries a coupon of 1%, the lowest historical rate for Popular in the last ten years. The most recent bond issue made by Popular in April 2014 carried a coupon of 2.125% and had a five and a half year term.

Specifically, 78% of the demand for the bond issue has come from international investors. It has managed to attract a lot of investors and achieve an oversubscription of 1.4 x.

In terms of the nationalities of the international investors: 31% were from Germany and 15% were from the UK and Ireland. Demand for the bond issue was highly diversified, comprising 80 orders. By type of investor, 47% were fund managers, 32% were central banks and 19% were banks.

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Translation: Carmel Drake