BNP Paribas

Beijing Capital Group Co, which marketed a two-tranche deal on Monday, decided to ditch the planned perpetual note and instead price a larger senior tranche for cost reasons.

Vietnam’s Masan Group Corp is inviting lenders to join an up to $250m loan to support an investment into one of its subsidiaries.

The first public deals of the year in the long end of the euro curve from the supranational and agency sector arrived on Monday, with the trades receiving huge demand and pricing exceptionally tight to secondary levels.

Fundamentals are becoming more important again in Europe’s corporate bond primary market, but the power of the European Central Bank technical trade in the secondary market is quickly washing away any new issue concessions issuers have to give.

Société Générale failed to match BNP Paribas for demand in the sterling market on Monday, after following its peer by launching a new non-preferred senior trade in the currency.

Green and sustainability-linked convertible bonds are poised to enter the mainstream, following a year of rapid growth in the asset class.

A burst of mandates on Monday confirmed what many market participants had expected: a rise in emerging market corporate bond supply.

LBBW and Banque Fédérative du Crédit Mutuel (BFCM) were met with muted demand on Monday morning as the pair ventured into a busier, yet weaker market in search of senior non-preferred debt.

CPPIB Capital mandated the banks to lead its first ever 20 year euro benchmark on Friday, in what is also the first mandate announcement for a benchmark transaction by a non-sovereign/sub-sovereign public sector borrower in the long end of the euro curve in 2021.

Huhtamaki, the Finnish food packaging company, has refinanced a €400m facility, with the borrower becoming the latest to add sustainability metrics to its main bank line as an EU ban on single-use plastics comes into force.

The UK Debt Management Office has chosen the banks to lead the sale of a new 25 year conventional Gilt via syndication, following support for this maturity by Gilt-edged Market Makers (GEMMs) and investors in a consultation at the end of November.

Five Chinese corporate borrowers pushed into the debt market on Thursday, capping a frantic pace of deal flow this week that set a new record for Asia bond issuance.