Banks
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UniCredit plans to make labelled financing a regular part of its funding across the group, following the launch of its debut labelled bond this week. Its first deal proved popular as it stacked up more than €3.25bn of demand. -
A trio of rare names made use of the attractive issuance conditions and strong appetite for credit to launch debut deals this week. Two of the borrowers — Illimity and Groupama — chose to print subordinated deals into this stable market, while Erste Bank Croatia sold its first public deal outside its home market.
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Inmobiliaria Colonial, the Spanish property company, reopened its newly printed June 2029 bonds on Thursday, paying a few basis points' concession to increase them by 25%.
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SoftBank returned to euro and dollar bond markets after a three year absence to issue an eight tranche deal, raising more than $7bn-equivalent from total demand of more than $16bn, and hitting every empty spot in its funding curve at once.
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Société Générale kicked off the second half of 2021 with its first euro senior preferred deal in almost 18 months, landing its €1bn deal with a small new issue premium.
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Greece's Alpha Bank attracted healthy demand for its €800m share sale, in the latest sign of the country’s economic rehabilitation following the eurozone crisis.
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Voltalia, a French renewable energy company, has signed a €170m sustainability-linked loan, with the deal adding to the growing trend of second party opinion providers becoming a central part of ESG finance.
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The Bank of Nova Scotia’s Chilean subsidiary turned to the Swiss franc for its debut international bond sale on Tuesday, achieving a cost of funding well inside what it could have achieved in the domestic market.
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Bulgarian animal healthcare company Huvepharma has become the latest casualty in an IPO market oversaturated with supply.
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Citi has shaken up the top ranks of its corporate banking business in Taiwan following a senior banker’s decision to retire from the firm.
