Barclays
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Shares in Abengoa, the troubled Spanish renewable energy company, plunged again on Thursday and its credit default swap spread widened sharply, on unconfirmed reports in the Spanish press that banks including Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citigroup and Société Générale had declined to underwrite its rights issue.
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UniCredit Bank Austria (Baca) returned to the covered bond market on Tuesday to issue the first Austrian Pfandbrief since the country’s Financial Markets Authority (FMA) announced a debt moratorium on bonds issued by Heta Asset Resolution AG (HAR).
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The euro market was treated to its first 10 year corporate deals in more than a month on Thursday, with Irish food producer Kerry and French utility Suez Environnement opening books. -
French hotel group Accor showed that demand is strong for even weaker investment grade credits on Thursday, drawing a rush of orders for a new eight year benchmark.
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Heineken, the Dutch brewing company, issued a €500m bond, tightening pricing as investors jumped on a rare issue by the company.
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American Honda, the American subsidiary of the Japanese auto company, made its first euro appearance in two years on Thursday, becoming the second auto company to tap the euro market for fixed and floating paper this week.
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Banque Fédérative du Crédit Mutuel opened the euro tier two market for a long list of names, as bankers sit on a pipeline that some say contains more than 20 transactions.
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Akelius Residential Property, the Swedish property group, will begin a roadshow on Monday, September 7, for its first high yield bond in euros.
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Estonia's Eesti Energia is looking to print a euro denominated Reg S bond.
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Russian mining company Norilsk Nickel is undertaking series of investor update meetings in early September.
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Barclays has made a clutch of new hires in Australia in recent months, with the latest being Duncan Hogg as its new head of M&A, as the bank looks to bolster its cross-border M&A, financing and associated risk management businesses.
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