Credit Suisse

General Electric is the world’s biggest bond issuer, and usually one of the US issuers that comes most frequently to European markets — partly to diversify its funding, and partly because it has European-based businesses to finance.

Credit Suisse enjoyed tight pricing and heavy demand as investors gobbled up the extra yield offered on its $2.5bn second additional tier one dollar deal.

French mortar producer Parex has changed the structure of its new bond offering to include only floating rate notes.

Spanish olive oil producer Deoleo scrapped the entire dollar tranche of its €600m loan last week but as the dust settles on the deal it has emerged that US, rather than European investors, played the pivotal role in this swing.

JP Morgan has promoted Rohit Chatterji to be head of emerging Asia M&A, replacing Rob Sivitilli, who will be retiring from the industry after 18 years with the bank.

PTT Exploration and Production (PTTEP) printed the first dollar corporate hybrid from Thailand on Wednesday, a perpetual non call five. Despite a noisy Thai political backdrop, the deal attracted a legion of yield-hungry investors who drove final pricing a staggering 37.5bp tighter than initial guidance.

Swiss payments provider Aduno hit the domestic bond market for its third ever issue on Thursday, with a fixed and floating rate deal.

Malaysian conglomerate Boustead Holdings had plenty to celebrate on June 11 after pricing its MR1.05bn ($327m) spin-off of its plantations business at the top of guidance and becoming the largest Malaysian IPO of the year so far.

Two less frequent European borrowers and the world’s biggest corporate bond issuer gave euro investors a varied diet today, as GE Capital issued a €500m FRN and Sandvik and Sixt brought their premarketing to fruition with sub-benchmark deals.

Dutch discount retailer Hema priced €715m of bonds yesterday, after increasing the fixed rate tranche by €25m and shrinking the floating rate tranche by the same amount.

Bibby Offshore, the UK provider of subsea services to offshore oil and gas firms, plans to issue £175m of senior secured seven year notes.

Investors poured into Beijing Enterprises Group Company’s (BE Group) HK$4.31bn ($556m) exchangeable bond on June 10 as the opportunity to invest in a major blue chip was too good to ignore even though the terms were aggressive.