Europe

Big names are poised for IPOs in the upcoming months, as long as inflation and elections don’t bring unwelcome surprises

Hans van der Ploeg will serve as executive director of leveraged lending across Europe

The wave of movement between equity syndicate teams in Europe rolls on

The margin on the loan is the latest to be linked to third-party ESG ratings

The UK’s arrival as a green sovereign bond issuer will provide a boost to the development of the sterling public sector socially responsible bond market, according to analysts at BNP Paribas, in a recent report.

Deal could mark the entry of a new player into the European CLO industry

Numis wants to shed its tag as a UK small-cap broker and become a bigger force in European corporate finance, writes David Rothnie

RBC Capital Markets has hired Mizuho's head of European consumer and retail, Aakash Mohan, to lead its investment banking coverage of the consumer products sector.

"We want to use this change of structure and these new leadership roles to foster this multi-product solutions mentality," Pete Mason tells GlobalCapital

Petropavlovsk, the London-listed Russian gold miner, will repurchase over $135m of international bonds due in 2022 to ease a maturity that Fitch has said is vulnerable to the last year of board and management instability.

Kernkraftwerk Gösgen-Däniken split open a quiet Swiss franc market on Monday as it looked to slip in ahead of the post-summer rush, landing its eight year bond 3bp through fair value.

This week's funding scorecard looks at the progress European sovereigns have made in their funding programmes in August.