Natixis

Since the market returned from its summer break, no corporate bond issuer had printed a new deal with a tenor longer than 12 years before Wednesday. However, on Wednesday French water and waste company Suez Environnement pushed through to 15 years with a €500m trade.

The European leveraged loan deal pipeline for September keeps growing, now topping €7bn from more than 10 borrowers. The latest facility is for UK software firm Civica, which Partners Group has acquired from OMERS Private Equity.

Natixis has named Desmond Tang as head of financial sponsors coverage for Asia Pacific, a newly created position as the bank sets up a financial sponsors coverage department for the region.

The European Investment Bank raised €3bn with a December 2023 EARN on Wednesday, coming hot on the heels of Austria's €7.5bn dual tranche, but the flow of euro deals appears to be abating with no borrowers hitting screens for Thursday.

Since the market returned from its summer break, no corporate bond issuer had printed a new deal with a tenor longer than 12 years. However, that changed on Wednesday when French water and waste company, Suez Environnement pushed through to 15 years with a €500m trade.

Austria has become the first eurozone sovereign to syndicate a 100 year bond, selling €3.5bn to investors desperate to pile cash into ultra-long paper.

On Monday, Japanese brewer Asahi Group brought the fourth European bond issue by a beer producer in Europe in 2017. The €1.2bn dual tranche offering was the largest of four new issues in the euro corporate bond market, all of which were rated triple-B and paid double digit new issue premiums.

French property company Icade printed its first green bond on Monday, on a day when no other corporates ventured into the bond market. Having the full attention of investors allowed the issuer to increase the deal to €600m and price 20bp tighter than initial price thoughts.

Natixis has hired Bryan North-Claus as head of fixed income sales Americas, as part of the French bank's push to improve its American business.

On Wednesday, Spanish electricity utility Iberdrola became the third corporate issuer in a week to print a green bond in euros. The €750m 10 year deal took the total corporate green bonds issued since the summer break to €1.95bn.

Clarion Events is set to launch the loan funding for its acquisition by private equity firm Blackstone next week or soon after. The buyer also has funding for a deal to buy Paysafe in the pipeline.

On Wednesday, Spanish electricity utility Iberdrola became the third corporate issuer in a week to print a green bond in euros. The €750m 10 year deal took the total corporate green bonds issued since the summer break to €1.95bn.