Europe

Dean Tyler, previously a managing director at Sberbank, has taken on more responsibility at Haitong Securities this month.

Perform Group, the UK digital sports media firm, sold £175m of secured notes on Wednesday, after cutting down the offering from £200m as investors proved cautious.

SEB mandated leads and opened books for the fourth sterling denominated covered bond from a Swedish issuer this year, a three year floating rate note. At the same time, Korea Housing Finance Corp (KHFC) opened books for a fixed rate five year dollar benchmark, and its first legally enshrined covered bond.

HSH Nordbank issued a €500m five year mortgage Pfandbrief on Thursday. Despite offering an attractive new issue premium and a rare Pfandbrief spread over mid-swaps, leads struggled to fill the order book, with the structural upheaval facing the issuer compounding difficult market conditions.

Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg (LBBW) went for size on Thursday as it was set to print a €500m tap of its outstanding September 2017 floating rate notes, bringing the total outstanding debt to €1.15bn.

Julius Baer became the first foreign bank to issue a Singapore dollar-denominated additional tier one (AT1) this week. By doing so, the Swiss lender has joined a growing number of banks that are satisfying their capital needs through the country’s bond market, writes Rev Hui.

The UK plans to change its rules on bonuses, allowances, and banker pay to reflect the European Banking Authority’s hostility to “allowances” — seen as a tool to circumvent restrictions on the ratio of fixed pay to bonuses.

European benchmark issuance is expected to rise in 2016 led by German banks, which have seen double digit growth in mortgage lending this year, say analysts at Commerzbank. The next largest regional supply is expected from issuers in France, then Spain followed by Canada, say analysts at Société Générale.

Interdealer broker Tullett Prebon has deepened its commitment to telephone trading by agreeing to buy the global hybrid voice broking and information business of ICAP.

Abide Financial, a UK based transaction reporting specialist, has applied to become a derivatives trade repository under European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) definitions.

Alpha Bank has launched on November 11 a share sale to raise €1.66bn, as part of its €2.74bn capital strengthening plan, to address capital weakness discovered in recent EU stress tests.

UniCredit’s profits took a 30% hit in the third quarter, but the drop in core bank earnings was far more modest and its investment bank posted a year-on-year increase.