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BMW dominated corporate bond issuance in Europe on Thursday, with an unusually large €2.5bn transaction.

Spain auctioning six month debt at a negative yield may have passed people by as a logical step on the descent of eurozone yields in the world of eurozone quantitative easing.

UK asset manager Charlemagne Capital (CC) is setting up its first fund to provide international investors with a platform to invest in Iran, Dominic Bokor-Ingram, an investment advisor at Charlemagne Capital told IFIS.

Global swaps participants can benefit from using decentralised, multitool approaches towards regulatory reporting in order to reduce costs and increase efficiency, according to a data vendor.

LCH.Clearnet’s SwapClear has become the first central counterparty to offer global clearing of inflation swaps, which it believes will provide better risk management for buyside firms.

Unibail-Rodamco, the Franco-Dutch property company, attracted huge demand today for a combined offering of green bonds and ordinary bonds – possibly the first time an issuer has sold both in a single transaction.

Slovak Telekom, on Wednesday, said it intended to float 49% of its business in a joint Bratislava and London listing.

Amid a flurry of euro bonds, Daimler opted for sterling on Wednesday, with a tap led by HSBC of its £300m July 2018 bond.

RCI Banque, the customer finance arm of French car maker Renault, today issued a €750m 3.25 year floating rate note, continuing a run of issuance of short dated floaters by frequent issuers.

UBS has promoted two employees to co-head its equities business in the Americas, according to an internal memo.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch has appointed Karim Assef and Diego De Giorgi co-heads of global investment banking.

A pair of French agencies are set to reawaken a euro market for SSAs that has been sleeping for two weeks, after mandating banks for deals on Wednesday.