BNP Paribas

This week will see the Schuldschein market host its first two green deals, a new direction for the centuries-old private debt market.

With the year not two months old, seven leading equity capital markets banks have got saddled with what is understood to be at least €50m each of Saipem shares, after the rump of its rights issue failed to sell.

The Republic of Peru could become the third Latin America sovereign to issue in euros in 2016 after holding an investor call at 10.30am UK time on Monday.

Tata Steel has received a new commitment at the senior level for its $1.5bn refinancing, with banks yet to join in general syndication.

State Bank of India is back in the loan market for a fresh $500m fundraising that is expected to launch into syndication in the next couple of weeks.

Like the film of the same name, investment bank 'matrix' structures make GlobalCapital’s head hurt, and become tedious when they’re repeated a few times. Trying to decipher which banker is responsible for which business becomes a complex head-scratcher. One imagines revenue-credit discussions are similarly painful.

DNB Bank priced its first public euro senior unsecured bond for more than four years on Friday, and became the latest bank to take as much as possible from its order book as conditions remain uncertain.

Banca Popolare di Vicenza came a step closer to launching its listing and capital increase this week, as it announced the date of a shareholder meeting to approve the deal.

A healthy pair of benchmarks this week and strong conditions mean the euro market is wide open for a pair of supranationals to bring planned deals next week.

Crédit Agricole explicitly backed the newly proposed type of French senior debt in its full year results this week, as support for the asset class appears to be spreading across the country’s financial institutions.

KfW this week printed its widest five year KfW dollar benchmark since 2009 as negative swap spreads took their toll on pricing despite an improving macroeconomic backdrop.

The French bank has simplified its investment banking structure, ending a year of uncertainty and turning the focus of its coverage teams away from London, writes David Rothnie.