Europe
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This week's scorecard looks that the funding progress of French agencies as we move into the fourth quarter.
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The primary market is likely to remain as active in October as it was in September, but in light of strong conditions and the European Central Bank meeting at the end of the month, volumes are ‘biased to the upside’, according to one banker. -
“Phew, you scared us there!” sums up the reaction of Europe’s equity capital market on Thursday, when Pirelli’s monster truck of an IPO, which had sagged by 2.8% from its launch price on its first morning of trading, perked up and began climbing as it ought.
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Spain and Catalonia could be heading for a “Pyrrhic victory on both sides” in terms of their capital markets access, if they fail to reach an agreement on the latter’s status after a disputed independence referendum on Sunday, according to capital markets lawyers.
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Spanish banks face difficult market conditions amid belligerent rhetoric from the Spanish and Catalan governments after Sunday’s independence referendum.
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The leveraged loan market is showing no sign of slowing after a September filled with jumbo deals as French telecoms companies Altice and its subsidiary SFR join the fray with transactions of more than €1bn.
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Last week's crop of benchmarks have been subjected to the scrutiny of the BondMarker voters and, on the whole, they were pretty impressed.
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Barclays has turned to an experienced hand to lead its corporate finance business in Europe and the Middle East, in a move that signals the end of a management overhaul notable for its reliance on bringing in external heavy hitters.
