Banks

◆ Senior preferred format helps mitigate execution risk ◆ Issuer shifts larger funding into shorter FRN ◆ Rates volatility back on the agenda

◆ French issuer picks size over price ◆ ‘Three handle’ important to secure investor interest ◆ Danske readies fixed and floating rate notes

Bankers off deal say it was arb-driven

◆ Greeniums on show in tier two euro deals ◆ Rarity and green elements generate negative NIP ◆ Aussie issuer follows major peers’ return to euros

Green format helps multilateral lender eschew new issue premium

Twenty year veteran MD departs Paris office, succeeded by ED

Head of funding talks to GlobalCapital after breaking a decade long absence from capital issuance ◆ Issuer looks at covered and senior deals next ◆ New tier two deal has been among strongest recent FIG performers

Deal is the first of its kind in Swiss francs and the latest milestone under the Swiss digital pilot project

◆ BPCE and Handelsbanken print first Yankee bonds of the year ◆ Citi increases perpetual size after $4.6bn book ◆ Flurry of activity from US insurers

‘All stars aligned’ for the sovereign to serve up third deal of 2024

New bond was issued at undersupplied part of the euro curve

Rare Italian issuer attracts strong interest from private banks, while Crédit Agricole scores a hat trick