BNP Paribas

B&B Hotels, France’s third largest budget hotels group, closed the book for its €339m seven year term loan ‘B’ at a wide price this week, as the European leveraged loan market works through the last of the deals underwritten in 2015.

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.

Ascential priced its initial public offering on Tuesday, for a deal size of £279.9m. After a rocky first day on the London Stock Exchange, the information and events business finished the day with its shares trading at the exact level at which they had been priced.

BNP Paribas has impressive targets for cutting costs and increasing capital, after outshining some of its major competitors by posting a full year profit. But it needs to tell a compelling story about how it plans to hit them.

Keurig Green Mountain, the US speciality coffee and coffee machine firm, increased the euro term loan ‘B’ tranche of the $6.4bn debt package backing its acquisition by JAB Holding, the German investment group.

Ascential, the information and events business formerly known as Top Right Group and Emap, narrowed the price range for its IPO before closing the book on Monday.

Market participants say a decision to move out of the UK could have a negative impact on HSBC’s bonds, with the bank poised to determine the future location of its headquarters within days.

BNP Paribas enjoyed a 13.2% rise in corporate and institutional banking (CIB) revenues in 2015 over 2014 — and is outlining plans to gain more market share at the expense of some of its “retreating European peers”.

If this is what first quarter results are going to be like, count GlobalCapital out. Another bank with a pretty decent set of businesses, and another stonking loss. Credit Suisse appears to have taken after Deutsche in all of the wrong ways.

Ascential, the information and events business formerly known as Top Right Group and Emap, has narrowed the price range for its IPO, homing in on the middle of the original range, and is covered within that range.

Laboratoire Français du Fractionnement et des Biotechnologies (LFB), the French biopharmaceutical company, announced on Tuesday that it had raised a €124m Euro private placement, as the Euro PP market gathers pace, according to bankers.

The extraordinary sight of a German public sector borrower pulling a syndication mid-week led not only led to criticism of the deal’s execution but also reawakened fears over banks' diminishing ability to take down and warehouse sovereign and sub-sovereign bonds. Craig McGlashan reports.