Crédit Agricole

Crédit Agricole Italia’s eight year covered bond has the highest BondMarker average score of any deal issued so far this month. The transaction is closely followed by deals from Banco BPI and BPER Banka. Intesa Sanpaolo is leading among the six Italian covered bonds issued this year, but the survey is still open and some marks could yet improve.

Danske Bank and Crédit Agricole took a combined €2bn of tier two debt out of the market on Tuesday, while Bawag was also active on a busy day for FIG syndicates.

Qatar Islamic Bank has launched its $750m five year benchmark sukuk at 150bp over mid-swaps.

Following the success of the jumbo acquisition financing for Brookfield and CPDQ’s purchase of Johnson Controls’ Power Solutions unit, European leveraged loan buyers now have a wide variety of credits to assess, with deals from Ceva Santé, Delachaux, Konecta and Hotelbeds in the market this week.

Crédit Agricole Italia took 50% more covered bond funding than it had expected on Friday after being swamped with demand for a new eight year deal, while Banco BPI reopened the Portuguese covered bond market with a €500m transaction that received seven times as much interest from investors.

European high yield investors are as eager to buy bonds as their investment grade counterparts — the difference is, while IG issuers have been pouring paper into the market, high yield has been in a drought. But that is at last starting to break.

High yield bond issuance in Europe is perking up, with several deals being marketed or just about to be launched. Beginning its roadshow on Monday was Sappi, the South African paper company, which wants to issue €450m to replace an older bond; starting on Tuesday is French car parts group Faurecia, seeking €500m.

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Ceva Santé Animale, a French company which develops vaccines and pharmaceuticals for animals, is preparing to raise a €2.15bn loan package to refinance and to pay a dividend.

The State of Qatar wowed the financial world on Wednesday with a $12bn three tranche deal that gathered a staggering $50bn of orders.

Bank of China paid a visit to the euro bond market on Wednesday, raising €500m through its Paris branch. It was just the latest Chinese financial institution to fund in the currency.

Qatar launched a long anticipated triple tranche dollar benchmark on Wednesday, hitting three parts of the curve for what may prove the largest emerging markets deal so far this year. The deal had gathered more than $35bn of orders before the US open.