Société Générale

Sanofi, the French pharmaceutical company, priced on Wednesday the largest corporate bond deal so far in 2018, an €8bn six-tranche deal. The company regularly uses a multi-tranche approach to the market, but this was its largest deal so far in any currency.

A unit of Puma Energy is in the loan market, seeking $1.1bn across three tranches, according to a banker who received the invitation.

China’s Tianjin Rail Transit Group Co (TRT) and Chengdu Xingcheng Investment Group Co both dipped into the euro market on Tuesday, with the former printing a green bond.

Public sector borrowers found buckets of dollar demand on Tuesday, as a French agency sold its largest ever benchmark in the currency and a supranational printed a trade at the upper end of its historical size range. Another supra is lined up to test whether that demand will hold on Wednesday.

Spanish telecoms company Telefonica has announced the sale of its latest hybrid new issues while also tendering for several of its outstanding hybrids. After over a month since the last benchmark euro hybrid issue, investors contributed to a large order book.

Yapi Kredi printed its $500m five year senior bond on Monday with a new issue premium of 20bp-25bp — a hefty but necessary concession, vindicated by the deal trading around re-offer on Tuesday.

South Korea’s Kookmin Bank returned to the Formosa bond market on Monday, raising $300m from a floating rate note (FRN). Taiwanese investors’ eagerness to buy Korean financial credits helped the issuer price a relatively cheap deal versus an international transaction.

A pair of public sector borrowers are bringing short end dollar benchmarks as ever widening swap spreads support trades at that part of the curve.

Private equity firm CVC and local investor Alba are funding their €3.8bn acquisition of 201m shares in Gas Natural, the energy group, with a €1.9bn loan, which is set to become one of the largest Spanish financial deals of the year.

Yapi Kredi shrugged off last Friday’s downgrade by Moody’s and was well on its way to selling a new five year senior bond on Monday morning, having started around 40bp back of fair value, according to a lead manager.

Godewind Immobilien, the German real estate company led by the former CEO and CFO of WCM, has filed an intention to float document to list on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in a €450m IPO.

Credito Valtellinese, the Lombard bank which is raising capital to meet requirements of the European Central Bank, has announced that investors have taken 83% of its pre-emptive rights issue, with several firms anchoring the deal.