Banks

Compared with last year, employees at BNP Paribas and Société Générale are more disapproving of their chief executives and less optimistic on the outlook for their firms over the next six months, according to analysis carried out by UBS.

London football club Tottenham Hotspur FC has sold £525m of US private placements, according to sources familiar with the situation, to pay off bank loans which funded the construction of its new stadium.

Sequoia Economic Infrastructure Income Fund Ltd, the London-listed investment fund that specialises in private debt and infrastructure bonds, is preparing to raise £146m to take advantage of a growing pipeline of investment opportunities, despite the political volatility in the UK.

Standard & Poor's has affirmed Romania's investment grade rating, at BBB- with a stable outlook. The central European sovereign escaped a downgrade to junk status, but bond auctions this week will determine appetite for the credit.

Natixis has been building out its Asia Pacific presence, making some senior changes to its global markets team and adding three new bankers.

Barclays' head of private capital markets for Europe, the Middle East and Africa has decided to leave the bank.

China’s Suning Financial Services, a subsidiary of home appliance retailer Suning Holdings Group, has closed a HK$1.63bn ($208m) three year loan.

Lendlease Global Commercial Real Estate Investment Trust, a Singapore Reit sponsored by its Australian parent Lendlease, started sounding out investors for its IPO on Monday.

Czech consumer finance company Home Credit has begun work with investors for its IPO of around $1bn on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, testing investor appetite on Monday.

Three new investment grade corporate bonds appeared in Europe on Friday, a slower pace than the frenetic one of Tuesday and Wednesday, but still adding €1.6bn to the already huge total of €15.5bn in the middle three days of this week.

The dual currency $303m-equivalent loan, which marks Africa Export-Import Bank's (Afreximbank) second entry into the market, is the largest ever Samurai loan raised by an African issuer.

Bank of the Philippine Islands issued on Thursday a green bond in Swiss francs, which came at a negative yield.