Deutsche Bank

Deutsche Bank’s cost cutting and capital raising efforts are starting to pay off, with the bank dragging itself to profitability in the first quarter after full-year losses of €1.4bn in 2016. However, net revenues were down €800m year on year, and the shares dipped after the announcement on Thursday.

The Asian Development Bank on Wednesday hit the $4bn mark for the first time with a dollar benchmark, taking advantage of a dearth of supply and offering a bit of juice to harvest a hefty amount of cash.

Credit Suisse shares closed 2.7% higher on Wednesday after the bank confirmed what had been widely expected: it will conduct its second rights issue in 18 months, and scrap its plan to float its Swiss Universal Bank.

Energy company Orazul Energy Egenor, the Peruvian arm of Orazul Energía, took advantage of a cash-rich Lat Am bond market and scarcity of Peruvian issuance to sell $550m of 10 year bonds on Tuesday.

French food producer Labeyrie Fine Foods both widened pricing and reduced the size for its €500m term loan this week, as changeable market conditions have driven a cheapening of several primary deals in the leveraged loan market.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development on Tuesday equalled its largest ever size in dollars on Tuesday with a deal priced flat to or through its curve. The Asian Development Bank is set to follow in a market in which issuers are winning demand from investors starved of supply, said bankers.

Want Want China Finance and China SCE Property sold $500m and $300m of notes respectively on Thursday, as both hit the market before the expected rush investment grade names next week.

India’s divestment body has hired banks to lead the IPO of state-owned reinsurer General Insurance Corp of India, which is expected in the fourth quarter of 2017, according to a banker on the mandate.

The lawsuits over alleged manipulation of the SSA market have spread further, with more dealers and individuals named in a court filing. Citi, HSBC, RBC and TD Bank have now been added, as well as Bank of America, Crédit Agricole, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and Nomura. The suit also draws in the new issue market, alleging that the traders were able to front-run new issues yet to be announced or in book-building.

Rare covered bond issuers from Portugal and Spain made a surprise return to the market this week after long absences with transactions that, under the circumstances, were very well received.

Banco Santander Totta did well to raise €1bn of seven year funding on Thursday at a record level through govies, given the damaging ramifications for peripheral Europe that would follow if France’s far left and far right presidential candidates made it through to the second round of voting.

India this week teed up the first divestment of the 2017/18 financial year and it hit a hole-in-one, after investors bundled into the book as soon as it opened. With the government rushing out requests for proposals for more sell-downs, the success of its debut is a sign of things to come, said equity market bankers in the country. Jonathan Breen reports.