Barclays

Supranational and agency borrowers showed their steel once again this week, printing a series of euro deals in the face of strong volatility.

Jes Staley, the new chief executive of Barclays, has brought JP Morgan's Paul Compton over to the firm as chief operating officer.

Despite the flimsy state of Europe's high yield market, its sister leveraged loan business remains vibrant, and this year is the most open of the four main leveraged finance markets: bonds and loans in dollars and euros, writes Max Bower.

Royal Dutch Shell has cancelled its £10.07bn ($14.56bn) bridge loan, instead opting to pay for the cash element of its $82bn acquisition of BG Group with cash on balance sheet.

Barclays has promoted Jim Glascott, global head of debt capital markets, to chairman of global finance and risk solutions Americas. Following the appointment, Mark Lewellen, EMEA DCM head, will have a bigger, global job.

Bpifrance Financement sold a five year €500m bond on Wednesday as a moderate rise in Bund yields suggested calm after a turbulent open to the week.

Rich Ricci, the former chief executive of Barclays investment bank, has joined freemarketFX, a startup FX business, as chairman.

On Tuesday night the loan market gathered in all its finery to hear the winners of the 13th Syndicated Loan, Leveraged Finance and Private Placement Awards at the Guildhall, in London. The results are below.

Countryside Properties has received enough demand from investors to complete its IPO. The UK house and flat developer is counting on strong interest from UK long-only funds to weather difficult market conditions.

Pharmaceuticals firm Shire completed the syndication of an $18bn acquisition loan on Friday and will use proceeds to buy rare disease specialist Baxalta.

An investor reappraisal of additional tier one paper left the asset class trading at unprecedented lows on Monday, forcing Deutsche Bank to reassure the market of its ability to pay its coupons.

After nearly three weeks of radio silence, Europe’s investment grade corporate bond market has re-opened, with four successful issues this week, But issuers must still tread warily, as investors' interest is capricious, writes Ross Lancaster.