Santander

German car manufacturer Volkswagen livened up investors’ Tuesday with a new triple-tranche deal.

Santander Consumer Finance entered the Swiss market on Monday, selling Sfr150m ($150.8m) four year Swiss franc bonds via Credit Suisse.

Spain’s Soltec has signed a €100m loan from local banks, as the photovoltaic tracking equipment company furthers its global expansion.

UK REIT Tritax Big Box has signed a £250m short term facility, as the large logistics warehouse investor looks to make acquisitions.

Warner Music and Playtech announced new bond offerings with a combined €730m volume on Monday, less than the latest weekly inflows for high yield retail funds. But Bilfinger pulled its deal.

Abengoa, the Spanish renewable energy group, is seeking to convince its investors to engage in yet another rescue plan, which includes debt swaps with no cash coupons and new convertible bonds.

The Mexican arm of Spanish lender Santander wrapped up a buyback of subordinated tier two debt on Thursday as DCM bankers said they expected cross-border issuance from the country to remain muted.

Three more credit default swap contracts are referencing non-preferred senior bonds following the latest roll of the iTraxx indices, as bank debt investors try to deal with a gradual transition towards a bail-in regime in Europe.

Andrea Orcel, former chief executive of UBS Investment Bank, has been named Santander’s group CEO from early 2019. It’s the ultimate client-side move for Europe’s top FIG banker.

Santander Consumer Finance did not have to pay too much concession to take senior funding from the market on Tuesday, following on from Société Générale and Royal Bank of Scotland the day before.

Comcast won the bidding war for Sky over the weekend, with the US cable company mobilising £28.79bn-equivalent of loan funding to buy the UK media firm.

Spain’s largest department store group, El Corte Inglés, picked a busy week to roadshow its first rated issue. But its bonds will be listed in Dublin, despite efforts from the Spanish financial regulator to force a domestic bond listing in Madrid.