Barclays

Wells Fargo secured strong demand for its longer dated senior paper on Monday, making it the second North American bank to target euros after third quarter results were published last week.

Legal & General PLC launched 30 year non-call 10 notes in the UK on Monday, giving investors their first taste of a sterling denominated tier two insurance deal since June.

Naspers, the South African media group, is amending and extending a $2.25bn five year loan led by Barclays and Citi, having issued its largest ever bond for $1.2bn in the summer.

Singapore-listed Frasers Centrepoint (FCL) has signed a £300m ($468.5m) five year acquisition loan via Frasers Hospitality UK Holdings.

After weeks of volatility and fractious executions in Europe's corporate bond markets, BHP Billiton has pulled off the biggest ever corporate hybrid bond sale, proving investors are open to buying even quite challenging deals, if they come with lashings of yield, writes Ross Lancaster.

Dollar pre-funding is unlikely to be a feature of the fourth quarter this year as crushed swap spreads and a lack of direction from the US Federal Reserve force out SSA borrowers.

Senior SSA bankers are fretting that situations such as this week's clash between two Dutch agencies, which drove one of the pair to pull its deal, could become unavoidable, writes Craig McGlashan.

Lithuania landed its longest, largest and lowest yielding deal ever in one fell swoop this week. But with the eurozone sovereign’s order book dominated by rates buyers rather than emerging market accounts, the deal has implications for Spain just as much as Slovenia.

European and US banks paid up this week as they unleashed a torrent of dollar supply amid improving market conditions.

A Dutch brewing company has made a rare appearance in the private medium term note market with a 10 year note, joined by a trio of its continental peers that went even further down the maturity curve.

Covered bonds issued this week by Nordea Finland and DNB Boligkreditt went surprisingly well as, despite being the largest ones on offer, they were the most highly oversubscribed and subsequently posted the best performance.

Barclays already has a clear strategy for its investment bank and now it could be about to appoint the CEO to deliver it. But bigger questions lie ahead for all of Europe’s banks to remain competitive, writes David Rothnie.