Santander

Santander Consumer Finance opened up a new Tokyo Pro-Bond programme worth €10bn on Tuesday, following a similar move from its UK sister borrower last year.

Thames Water priced a £300m senior secured no-grow bond on Thursday, clinching the deal after two weeks of volatility in its outstanding bonds.

Santander’s Chilean arm has launched a tender offer for up to $500m on its 3.875% fixed rate 2022s and its floating rate notes due 2018.

Hoffmann La-Roche returned to the European corporate bond market exactly a year after its last offering in euros and as it did then, achieved aggressive pricing for a €650m bond.

Santander’s Chilean arm has launched a tender offer for up to $500m on its 3.875% fixed rate 2022s and its floating rate notes due 2018.

Glencore's core relationship banks showed strong support for its refinancing of a $8.45bn one-year loan, despite volatility for commodities and a recent downgrade for the mining and trading firm.

Santander’s global head of DCM will next month step in to fill the void left by Mark Dodd, who is retiring from the firm after more than 30 years in the capital markets.

Multiple FIG bonds hit the primary market for the first time in a month on Monday as European bank stocks continued their rebound to ease the pressure on borrowers.

Royal Dutch Shell has cancelled its £10.07bn ($14.56bn) bridge loan, instead opting to pay for the cash element of its $82bn acquisition of BG Group with cash on balance sheet.

Spanish renewable energy company Abengoa has asked lenders to sign a new credit facility as its March 28 deadline to avoid bankruptcy looms ever closer, but an accord appears elusive.

After hiding in the shadows of private placement markets in January, BMW rose above the parapet with a dual tranche public bond on Monday, only to be hit by another sharp global sell-off. Yet the deal still got done, at a good size and with tight new issue premiums.

Santander UK has taken advantage of deep demand for short dated floating rate debt to print a €750m deal in the private market.