Société Générale

Turkey’s Turkiye Sinai Kalkinma Bankasi (TSKB) made a second pioneering move into the sustainable bond market with the world’s first sustainable tier two bond on Tuesday, following on from a senior green bond last year.

Lebanon took orders of nearly $18bn for its largest ever bond on Monday and quality international participation was seen in a book that remained dominated by local accounts, according to bankers on the deal.

Lebanon was on track to print a triple tranche bond at the long end of the curve on Monday, having announced price talk first thing.

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.

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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.