Santander
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Santander Chile sold its first public international bond in over a year on Tuesday, turning to the Swiss franc market and pricing well inside its domestic curve as the local market loses its lustre. -
Enel, a long term sustainable finance champion, took €10.4bn of orders for its triple tranche sustainability-linked notes this week, but needed to pay up for longer maturities as inflation worries persisted.
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Survitec, the UK survival and safety company, has signed a revolving credit facility, bringing debt raised by the acquisitive company in the last few months to £297.5m.
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Atresmedia has signed a €250m sustainability-linked loan, becoming the first Spanish media company to do so.
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Deutsche Bank’s recently announced policy on returning to the New York office in September fits what many bankers have been expecting for months and heralds a return to normality. But for a small subset of bankers who left offices in London for lockdown in March 2020, the end of restrictions will also mean a change of circumstances — and getting used to living in a new country.
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The ESG capital markets were left reeling on Thursday after a group of banks provided a £1.1bn-equivalent sustainability-linked facility that does not have any key performance indicators included — on the agreement that the borrower will add them within 12 months. Mike Turner reports.
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Grosvenor Group, the UK property company, has signed a £1.1bn-equivalent sustainability linked revolving credit facility, while taking the unusual step of not formulating complete key performance indicators before signing.
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Santander has hired Abraham Douek from Citi to lead its coverage of financial institution and SSA clients within debt capital markets.
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HICL Infrastructure and JLEN Environmental Assets, two London-listed infrastructure funds, this week signed ESG-linked loans that use Sonia instead of Libor. But loans bankers are still worried about the large number of deals that have not moved away from Libor, which falls out of use on December 31.
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European banks made the most of an improving tone in the euro market this week, piling on top of one another to access funding in a small but supportive window.
