Crédit Agricole

◆ Canadian bank tightened spread by 6bp ◆ Euro benchmark deal placed at €1.25bn ◆ Canadian issuers have been busy in past three months

Kangaroo and Panda market grow as banks create US dollar FRNs to meet Asian demand

◆ Week's third FIG sterling deal to take advantage of opportunistic Gilts arb this ◆ Issuer's second sterling deal this year ◆ Follows multi-tranche yen issuance across the capital stack

Managing director is joining Citi's SSA and covered bond trading team

◆ German issuer opts for no-grow format ◆ Banker said early update helped ◆ Deal showed only minimal attrition

Researcher is one of the covered bond industry's most celebrated analysts after 16 years at the French bank

◆ Issuer’s first covered since September ◆ Aussie bank tapped seniors last week◆ CBA’s was only covered benchmark on Thursday

◆ German bank fixes deal size from the outset ◆ Banker said the bonds offered a small new issue concession ◆ Primary market to slow ahead of the weekend, banker predicts

◆ Simultaneous execution with Alphabet's record deal bodes well for others ◆ More FIG names likely to print in near future ◆ Other European banks diversify funding in Singaporean and Australian dollars

Central and Eastern Europe earmarked as an area of growth by market participants

Ex-Crédit Agricole banker to be based in Paris

Édouard Sauce had been with the firm for almost a decade