Banks

BNP Paribas has created a global leadership role for its equity derivatives trading division, appointing Emmanuel Dray to the position.

Bahrain Steel to lock in better conditions in refi — Saudi sparks life into local loan mart — Cranfield University soft-sounds private placement market — Golding Homes looks to add hundreds of houses with £120m facility — Great Portland brings ESG loans to UK Reits

Shares in UniCredit, Italy’s largest bank by assets, closed 8.1% higher on Thursday after the bank cut its stake in Turkey’s Yapi Kredi, while announcing a dividend increase and a share buy-back.

For all the dry powder available in private debt markets, Isabel Marant’s high yield debut, priced on Wednesday and a trade squarely in the so-called sweet spot for private credit, showed that public markets still have the edge.

Cepsa, the Spanish oil company, and Tyco Electronics, the US sensor technology company whose parent TE Connectivity is headquartered in Switzerland, hit screens with single tranche bond issues on Thursday, giving investors a break from the rash of jumbo deals in euros earlier this week.

Qatar National Bank took $1bn from bond markets on Wednesday as it tapped investors for the second time this year, with just 1% allocated to Gulf Co-operation Council-based investors.

Alpha Bank was more than 10 times subscribed on its debut in the tier two market on Thursday, allowing the speculative grade Greek lender to tighten its pricing by up to 100bp and land at an impressive coupon level of 4.25%.

Green bonds hardly trade any tighter than their ordinary counterparts, according to new analysis from Deutsche Bank.

Saudi Arabia's Saline Water Conversion Corp (SWCC) signed a $426.5m-equivalent loan with a consortium of local lenders. The deal comes after a disappointing year for international lenders, who were dismayed at the lower than expected volumes of Saudi Arabian activity.

Avenue Supermarts, which runs Indian supermarket chain DMart, has launched a qualified institutional placement worth about Rp40bn ($561.3m).

A mix of Chinese policy banks, hospital builders and pharmaceuticals companies have put the domestic bond market to use to combat the coronavirus outbreak as the death toll nears 600. More mainland issuers are also readying deals as the country’s regulators introduce a faster registration process for such issuance, write Addison Gong and Rebecca Feng.

Investors rushed to Indian company Adani Electricity Mumbai's (AEML) bond on Wednesday, flooding the $1bn deal with orders that reached more than $6bn at their peak.