Société Générale

China National Chemical Corp (ChemChina) is meeting investors for a euro bond this week, as it looks to raise funds to pay down debt taken for the acquisition of Italy's Pirelli.

MédiPôle Partenaires, the French private hospital group, has abandoned plans for an IPO after sponsor Bridgepoint decided to sell it to its competitor Elsan, owned by CVC, instead.

French media group Vivendi braved the euro bond market on Thursday as the sole corporate to issue a primary deal, as wary investors held firm on their demand for high concessions.

Groupe SEB, the French maker of household appliances, issued its first convertible bond on Tuesday, raising €150m at a negative yield, as part of the financing for an acquisition.

As expected, the loans for the leveraged buyout of Polish auction website Allegro are tightly priced, with tenors of six and seven years for less than 400bp.

Potential lenders to the Z4.8bn loan for the leveraged buyout of Polish firm Allegro will meet in Warsaw on Thursday where the deal will be launched into general syndication.

Ceská telekomunikacní infrastruktura (CETIN) added to the trickle of EM bonds expected before year end on Monday and met investors this week for a euro denominated bond. The BBB rated issuer is hoping to benefit from demand from both EM and high grade corporate accounts.

French banks could be free to issue tier three capital this month, as a new law establishing terms and conditions for the new asset class enters the final phase of the country’s legislative process.

The European subsidiary of US commodity trader Louis Dreyfus is refinancing a $800m dual tranche credit facility after increasing its Asian credit facility earlier in the year.

SG's deputy head of bond syndicate has left the bank.

Donald Trump’s shock US election victory in the early hours of Wednesday caused a shockwave to course through derivative markets overnight. But by midday in London traders said the overall reaction was much more orderly than in the aftermath of the UK vote in June to leave the European Union - and by close of business some markets had made full scale retrenchment.

The head of loan syndication and sales for Asia Pacific at Société Générale will become its global head of loan syndicate, assuming some of the responsibilities of the outgoing deputy head of global syndicate in the process.