Crédit Agricole

A group of Nordic public sector issuers are preparing a “practical guide on impact reporting” in the green bond market. While the initial aim is to assist Nordic borrowers in the public and private spheres, the authors hope that it could prove useful for issuers from other countries too.

A new name for the SSA market hit screens on Monday, picking three banks to run a dollar five year transaction. The borrower will share the market with dollar trades from Dexia Crédit Local and Finland.

Euro corporate bond issuance returned on Friday after a blank day due to Thursday’s European Central Bank meeting. As the ECB’s president, Mario Draghi, said nothing to unsettle markets, US machinery maker John Deere and Italian oil and gas company Eni both priced deals in euros before the weekend, while Sweden's Akelius Property did the same in sterling.

French property company Icade printed its first green bond on Monday, on a day when no other corporates ventured into the bond market. Having the full attention of investors allowed the issuer to increase the deal to €600m and price 20bp tighter than initial price thoughts.

Spanish clothing retailer Cortefiel priced its leveraged buyout bond on Thursday, in a sign that the high yield market is open for challenging credits.

France, Tennet, NWB and Berlin Hyp are among the green and social bond issuers acclaimed in GlobalCapital's Sustainable and Responsible Capital Markets Awards 2017, which were announced on Tuesday in Amsterdam.

Crédit Agricole CIB, the investment banking arm of the larger French bank, has hired a market veteran from Société Générale as global head of debt capital markets solutions and advisory.

Senior preferred debt has never been cheaper for banks — and it has regulatory benefits as well. While funding teams rush to meet bail-in targets, there's a value in keeping the old asset class alive.

French property company Icade printed its first green bond on Monday, but no other corporates ventured into the market. Having the full attention of investors allowed the issuer to increase the deal by €100m and price it 20bp tighter than initial price thoughts.

A €600m two tranche bond issue to finance the Spanish retailer Cortefiel’s LBO will be the euro high yield market’s starting shot for the second half of the year.

KEB Hana Bank sold its first dollar Formosa bond and only its second floating rate note post its merger on Thursday, raking in $350m. Ample liquidity in Taiwan and investors’ hunt for offshore assets buoyed the transaction.

KEB Hana Bank is selling its first-ever US dollar-denominated, dual-listed Formosa bond on Thursday, taking bids for floating rate bond with a five year tenor.