Credit Suisse

The Swedish firm Hoist Kredit, a subsidiary of Hoist Finance, on Wednesday sold its €250m bond to refinance a mixture of euro and Swedish krona floating rate notes.

Evry, the Norwegian IT firm 88% owned by Apax Partners, has bank meetings on Wednesday morning for its €275m equivalent dividend recapitalisation term loan ‘B’.

New issue premiums in the European corporate bond market widened further on Monday , as all three issuers that printed paid elevated concessions for their deals.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse are supporting Bayer’s $62bn bid for American agribusiness giant Monsanto and more banks are working on a loan for the deal, according to two bankers.

Bayer could be preparing to issue one of the five biggest rights issues ever, and the largest by a non-bank company, as part of the financing for its $62bn bid for Monsanto, the US agricultural chemicals and bio-engineering business.

US conglomerate the 3M Co visited Europe on Monday for a €1bn dual tranche bond that tapped the long end of the market, an area that experienced some jitters last week.

Trans Corpora is poised to decide this week whether to open syndication on a $150m loan that Credit Suisse and Maybank have pre-funded, according to bankers close to the transaction.

China Huarong Asset Management is looking return to the offshore bond market this month, while Sri Rejeki Isman (Sritex) has announced plans for a new international deal alongside a cash tender offer of its existing notes.

Credit Suisse has appointed a new head of US leveraged loans and high yield bond trading, a source has confirmed.

Peruvian power generation company Kallpa became the first Peruvian issuer apart from the sovereign to issue international bonds as strong local interest helped it to navigate a turbulent market on Thursday.

If all asset classes that ECB touches turns to gold, this week the corporate bond market showed signs that they do not remain that way. The astonishing run of issuance is by no means over, but deals’ bookrunners are recording increasingly contradictory results, writes Ross Lancaster.

BP showed on Thursday that there is still life in the equity-neutral convertible bond structure, bringing a £400m deal that was oversubscribed and priced within its marketed range.