France
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French health care group Elsan, owned by private equity firm CVC, on Tuesday announced price guidance on its €730m loan for the buyout of MédiPôle Partenaires. -
Shares in Amundi, the French asset manager, closed 3.2% higher on Monday after it announced that it had entered into exclusive negotiations with UniCredit to buy its asset management division Pioneer Investments, in a deal that could be worth €3.5bn.
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The Euro PP market needs to act fast to stop bank lending luring smaller companies away. But a few tweaks is all it needs.
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Companies are continuing to use windows for corporate bond issuance ahead of Sunday’s Italian referendum, as three borrowers hit the euro bond market on Tuesday.
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Société Générale has promoted two senior equity capital markets bankers.
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Compagnie de Financement Foncier’s deputy CEO Olivier Avis, and head of long term funding Paul Dudouit, speak to GlobalCapital about the bank’s funding, the end of the ECB's purchases — and how it has issued some of the longest deals ever seen in covered bonds.
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The busy equity block trade action, widely predicted by ECM bankers when the US presidential election produced a bounce in share prices, has continued this week with a string of sales totalling over $1.5bn.
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One of the last two substantial European IPOs of 2016 looks set to be completed on Friday, when RussNeft, one of Russia’s 10 largest oil companies, floats in Moscow for at least $495m.
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A new swathe of asset managers will be caught by rules on how they use benchmarks, after the European Securities and Markets Authority broadened its planned clampdown.
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SP Mortgage Bank got a strong response this week for its first covered bond, partly due to its defensive five year maturity, while Caffil did well to issue a 15 year deal despite soaring volatility.
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After defence stocks emerged as a winning sector after Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election on November 9, the French government took the opportunity on Tuesday night to sell a 1.39% stake in Safran, the French aerospace and defence group, for €365m.
