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. 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.

French property company Icade printed its first green bond on Monday, but no other corporates ventured into the market. Having the full attention of investors allowed the issuer to increase the deal by €100m and price it 20bp tighter than initial price thoughts.

John Wade has joined Mizuho Securities as head of debt capital markets for Asia Pacific, based in Hong Kong.

Eurazeo, the private equity firm, is offering a loan to fund the leveraged buyout of Spain’s Iberchem, a fragrance and flavour maker, from Magnum Capital.

Coface, the French trade credit insurer, has signed a €700m syndicated loan facility with a group of six banks.