Europe

Mizuho International has hired an experienced banker in London to head its European flow derivatives business.

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German healthcare group Asklepios is marketing a Schuldschein loan for €250m, but this should grow much larger, according to a banker close to the deal.

The newly set up Dutch mortgage bank, Solid Mortgages, is planning to introduce the Danish mortgage system to the Netherlands. Following a presentation to be made this September in Barcelona, the first transaction from Solid could emerge early in 2016, if not before.

Crédit Agricole Home Loan SFH issued a €200m tap of a seven year benchmark covered bond on Thursday. The small tap presented minimal execution risk and was priced with little concession to the curve.

Gazprom’s bondholders have allowed it to modify the terms and conditions of its £500m 5.338% loan participation notes due 2020, the company announced on Thursday.

Recticel, the Belgian manufacturer of polyurethane foam products, increased its share capital on Tuesday following the exercise of warrants.

Markit has agreed to buy CoreOne Technologies, a provider of regulatory reporting, index management, data management and prime brokerage services to financial institutions.

Italy’s short term borrowing costs hit a euro-era record low on Wednesday — but, despite a bail-out deal between Greece’s government and creditors looking imminent, the country’s costs failed to move at a bill auction on the same day.

HSBC promoted its latest high profile UK hire, Philip Noblet, to co-head of UK banking, moving Natalie Blyth, the previous co-head, over to commercial banking.

Ukraine’s sovereign debt restructuring, Argentinian primary elections and a potential Turkish coalition government are keeping debt bankers alert while the primary bond market takes its summer break.

The privatisation IPO of Poste Italiane, set to be one of the highlights of the ECM calendar in the second half of 2015, took another step forward on Tuesday when the company filed its request for listing to Borsa Italiana and its prospectus to Consob for approval.