Société Générale
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Société Générale said on Monday it had entered "a more active phase" of settlement discussions with US authorities over the Libor scandal and payments made to the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA). -
Russian gold miner Nordgold and coal company Siberian Coal Energy Co (suek) signed syndicated loans in the week leading up to Vladimir Putin’s victory in the Russian general elections.
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Analysts expect the iTraxx Europe indices will widen when IHS Markit issues series 29 this week, as the indices will for the first time reference French non-preferred senior bonds in place of ordinary senior unsecured obligations.
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Côte d’Ivoire took combined books of €4.8bn for its milestone dual tranche 11 and 30 year euro bond on Thursday, with investors voicing relief that the issuer had not squeezed pricing too much from the initial talk.
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The going was heavy for dollar borrowers as investors demanded extra concessions amid poor performance as CVS Healthcare’s trade from the previous week appeared to re-price the market.
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Sanofi, the French pharmaceutical company, this week priced the largest European corporate bond deal of 2018 — an €8bn six-tranche deal. The company used only European banks as global co-ordinators for the sale, as the euro market proved that it is a viable market for jumbo financings.
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Spanish telecoms company Telefonica announced the sale of new hybrid issues this week while also tendering for several of its outstanding hybrids. After more than a month since the last benchmark euro hybrid issue, investors contributed to an order book exceeding €4.5bn.
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The potential end of eurozone quantitative easing may be leading to sleepless nights for some, but top tier SSAs are welcoming the slow return to historically normal rates. KfW this week sold its first five year euro benchmark with a positive yield in nearly three years, welcoming back investors that had gone elsewhere in search of return — and auguring well for future euro issuance from the sector.
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Vonovia, the German housing company, issued €2.1bn of bonds on Thursday to finance its €5.2bn acquisition of Austrian peer Buwog, which was announced in December.
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Republic of Côte d'Ivoire was already hitting milestones with its new dual tranche euro trade on Thursday. Its 30 year offering is both the longest ever euro bond from sub-Saharan Africa, and looks set to be one of the highest yielding euro-denominated bonds from any sovereign in recent years.
