BNP Paribas

Intesa Sanpaolo drew a bumper book for a seven year senior print on Wednesday, highlighting the strong bid for an asset class that has seen minimal supply in February.

BNP Paribas Securities Services has named one of its senior bankers to run its operations in Brazil.

PAI Partners has sold nearly all its shares in Atos, the French IT services and outsourcing company, though it has kept a 0.3% stake because it believes there is still upside in the stock.

UK energy company SSE issued €600m and £750m of hybrid bonds on Tuesday, as the first call date of its hybrid issued in 2010 draws near.

Priceline, the online discount travel booking group, and electronics company TE Connectivity issued bonds totalling €1.55bn on Tuesday, continuing a run of euro issues by US firms.

A European sovereign mandated banks on Tuesday to sell a long dated euro bond, the first benchmark in the currency so far this week.

Survitec has reverse flexed its £250m acquisition term loan, the second leveraged loan borrower to tighten terms this week, as investors' options for paper remain slim.

Eiffage, the French construction company, has refinanced €3.3bn of loans, reducing the margins by two thirds compared with what it used to pay - even though revenues are under pressure from a state toll renegotiation.

Ivory Coast is marketing its new 12 year amortising note at 6.875%, a level that offers around a 37.5bp new issue premium.

PPG Industries, the American paint, industrial coatings and glass company, has hired banks for a euro bond, as its existing €300m 10 year, issued in 2005, approaches maturity.

Whirlpool, the US household appliance manufacturer, has added to the burgeoning pipeline of US corporate bonds in euros by mandating four banks for a European roadshow.

BNP Paribas is understood to have filled its vacancy for head of Asia equity syndicate with an internal candidate, hiring Hong Kong-based Simon Moss for the position. He takes over from Gary Chan, who left the French bank at the end of last year.