Société Générale
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HSBC has hired Société Générale's Hubert Preschez as co-head of global banking in France, to start in September. -
David Lim has rejoined Credit Suisse in the newly created position of vice-chairman for private banking, southeast Asia, effective next week.
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Société Générale on Wednesday morning revealed that it had listed 74 leveraged exchange traded products for trading on the London Stock Exchange, aiming squarely at sophisticated retail investors.
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Despite expectations of a slowdown in the pace of issuance in the European high yield market, two borrowers brought €2.9bn of new bonds this week. Both issuers, Spanish construction firm Aldesa and Italian banking payments group Nexi, marketed refinancing deals.
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Bahrain’s Oil and Gas Holding Company (Nogaholding), which is 100% state owned, is looking for seven year funding.
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The Development Bank of Kazakhstan was set to price its tenge denominated Eurobond on Thursday evening in London from a book that was at the last update approaching Kt140bn.
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Springer Nature, the German academic publishing group, has opened the books on its €1.3bn Frankfurt IPO with a price range that gives a “healthy discount” to peers.
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Karen Pang, an equity-linked banker based in Hong Kong, has left BNP Paribas for a new role in Deutsche Bank, according to two sources with knowledge of the move.
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Société Générale has appointed new sales heads for Asia Pacific and Europe within its global markets division, according to a press release on Wednesday.
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More than €3.5bn of high yield bond deals in euros, sterling and dollars were scheduled to close this week. Although some bankers described the pipeline as “crowded”, they expected market digestion to be ‘healthy’ ahead of quieter times.
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Bookrunners revealed more than €3bn of new speculative grade deals from seven issuers in the European high yield market this week. Coupons are slowly widening in the primary market, but they are still hitting issuers’ pricing targets, said market participants.
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A long time Natixis loans banker has left the bank to join French rival Société Générale’s global loan sales team.
