Europe

Novomatic, the Austria headquartered gambling company, is syndicating a five year revolving credit facility this month as it looks to combine its credit facilities in a single line.

Türkiye Vakıflar Bankası (Vakibank) is asking investors exchange its old style tier two bonds for new Basel III compliant notes, making it the second Turkish bank in as many weeks to turn to liability management to boost its capital.

Nordea Mortgage Bank (NMB) was set to issue its largest covered bond in three years with a well subscribed order book and a modest concession. At the same time, La Banque Postale returned with its now regular annual covered bond funding.

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China has bolstered its loan syndication and sales effort in London with a hire as the bank looks to establish a stronger foothold in the Europe, Middle East and Africa market.

Detsky Mir, the Russian children’s goods retailer, has announced its intention to float on the Moscow Exchange, more than two years after shelving plans to go public when Western sanctions were imposed on some Russian entities after the country's annexation of Crimea in 2014, and Russia suffered a recession.

The sterling high yield bond market on Friday priced its first single-B rated issue of the year, a £275m note from Amigo Loans, a UK consumer lender, with the third highest coupon in the past 12 months for a single-B sterling issue.

Crédit Agricole has pulled out of the primary dealerships of three countries, the latest bank to scale down the number of countries in which it is active as a PD. It is unlikely to the be the last this year, according to a GlobalCapital poll of DCM heads.

The acceleration of equity block trading in Europe continued on Thursday evening, when NLFI, the organisation that manages investments for the Dutch government, launched the sale of a 13.6% stake in ASR Nederland, the insurer nationalised during the financial crisis.

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Immofinanz, the Austrian property company, issued a €300m convertible bond in an evening bookbuild on Thursday night, alongside an incentivised early conversion of its €515m CB that matures in March 2018.

The UK Debt Management Office has named the group of banks that will sell its next Gilt syndication.

Core and non-eurozone covered bonds in the short to intermediate part of the curve were well supported on Friday after the European Central Bank said it would buy covered bonds with yield below its deposit floor.