Crédit Agricole

Macquarie’s Green Investment Group has secured debt financing to back its acquisition of a 40% stake in East Anglia One, in a deal that values the Iberdrola-owned wind farm at an enterprise value of £4.1bn.

GlobalCapital has published the nominations for its Sustainable and Responsible Capital Markets Awards. The winners will be announced on September 17, at our Awards Ceremony in Amsterdam.

German agency KfW is “open to further business in [both] Singapore and Hong Kong dollars” as it looks to expand its recently updated green framework. Last week, the agency made its green bond debut in Hong Kong dollars, placing a two year private placement on August 2.

Big banks and boutiques alike are ramping up operations to boost revenues in France, Europe’s most competitive investment banking market. But is there enough business — and talent — to go around? By David Rothnie.

Beijing Automotive Group (BAIC) has thrown open a €2.2bn-equivalent loan to support its acquisition of a minority stake in German automaker Daimler.

Crédit Agricole said it could start to unwind the ‘switch 2’ capital guarantee provided by its regional banking network in 2020 after it revealed a small boost to its common equity tier one (CET1) ratio in its second quarter results on Friday. Meanwhile, capital markets and investment banking operations did not perform well over the quarter.

BNP Paribas hires UK advisory head — Créd Ag’s credit unit chief moves to markets role — AIIB hires ICBC loan syndicator.

Clearing house LCH has hired Isabelle Girolami as its chief executive. She comes from Crédit Agricole’s corporate and investment bank (CIB), where she was deputy CEO.

Hanwha Energy USA Holdings Corp’s green bond attracted more than $2bn of orders on Tuesday, allowing the borrower to close the $300m trade with no new issue premium.

Chinese delivery services company SF Express is seeking a HK$5bn ($640m) syndicated loan to refinance a bridge facility used to support its acquisition of Deutsche Post DHL’s supply chain business in the Mainland.

A cavalcade of “familiar names” have come to the market over the last week. SSAs, corporates and FIG issuers printed across the euro curve, while a trio of supranationals were also active in emerging market currencies.

France’s EDF has signed two sustainability-linked revolving credit facilities totalling €600m. Now almost half of the energy company’s credit lines are priced against environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics.