Crédit Agricole
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Buyers of credit default swap protection on bonds issued by Rallye, the holding company of French supermarket chain Casino, will find out on Friday how their positions might be settled, reports Owen Sanderson. -
Agence Française de Développement (AFD) struck a lonely figure in dollars this week with a $650m two year floating rate note on Wednesday, though syndicate bankers said that several borrowers are lining up to pull the trigger on trades in the first week of June.
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Portugal sold its long-awaited debut Panda bond on Thursday, becoming just the third European sovereign and the first from the eurozone to tap China’s bond market.
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Agence Francaise de Developpement (AFD) was on the cusp of printing a $650m two year floating rate note on Wednesday, going against the recent trend among SSA issuers in dollars for fixed rate securities.
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Brussels Airport has issued a €500m US private placement in three tenors in a “blowout transaction”, according to market sources.
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Crédit Agricole has hired a former Barclays DCM banker for its corporate DCM desk.
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Anna D’Ercole is joining Santander from Crédit Agricole, where she has been working in the FIG team.
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The green bond market is going through one of its most intense periods, with a wide variety of high profile issuers joining the market. But there are also hints of novelty in the market. The Netherlands and KfW have used systems for classifying green investors, while Germany is considering a radical idea: whether Bunds could be issued with detachable green certificates. Jon Hay reports.
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Société du Grand Paris (SGP) issued a 30 year bond on Thursday which extends its benchmark curve from 2034 to 2050.
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Barclays plans to follow Crédit Agricole and Handelsbanken into the Kangaroo bond market. The UK lender mandated leads for a deal on Wednesday after the other two banks brought deals on Tuesday.
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Two French public sector borrowers are preparing to return to the green bond market, with the latter going on a roadshow to plug its first benchmark issue since 2017.
