Société Générale

Société Générale and HSBC were both looking to print total loss-absorbing capacity (TLAC) eligible deals on Monday, as investors showed further appetite for floating rate product.

Shares in Tullow Oil, the UK oil and gas drilling company, fell 16% on Friday morning after it announced plans for a £607m rights issue to strengthen its balance sheet after oil prices have rallied from their slump in 2015.

Two more IPOs of significant size were announced this week in Western Europe, and with four weeks to go until the start of the Easter holidays, they are likely to be the last of this IPO season to be launched.

Netherlands-based telecoms firm Altice, one of the European leveraged finance market’s leading issuers, held a lender call at 3pm London time on Thursday for €1.6bn of loan refinancings in euros, and more in dollars.

Slovenian steel group, SIJ, has signed its first syndicated loan for €240m, leading the way for more corporates from the country.

Turkiye Sinai Kalkinma Bankasi (TSKB) has announced plans to roadshow an inaugural Basel III compliant tier two dollar deal, a week after Akbank’s successful debut in the format.

The IPO of Innogy was voted Equity Capital Markets Deal of the Year and JP Morgan judged ECM Bank of the Year in GlobalCapital's 2016 Awards - read the full results here.

Six borrowers announced offerings in the European high yield bond market on Monday as borrowers looked to beat what could have been disruptive Dutch elections two days later.

Spie, the French technical services provider, brought the first new leveraged buy-out financing in the euro high yield bond market for three months this week with a €600m seven year senior unsecured bond.

Bain Capital has completed its second block trade of shares in Maisons du Monde, the French furniture retailer, since its IPO in 2016.

Gestamp Automoción, the Spanish car parts maker, has begun investor education for what is likely to be the largest European IPO of the year so far, after its Ebitda grew by 10.6% in 2016.

BMC Software, the US IT management firm, joined a packed European leveraged finance market on Monday with a €650m term loan refinancing, one of several deals launched since late last week.