Société Générale

French asset manager Tikehau Capital has completed its first syndicated loan, drawing support from eight banks, following a run of equity and debt raisings.

Italian real estate company Beni Stabili signed a €710m facility on Thursday backed by its key Telecom Italia assets.

Thom Europe, the French jewellery retailer owned by private equity firm Bridgepoint, sold a €190m tap of its 2019s to fund the acquisition of Stroili Group, an Italian peer.

European Investment Bank has kept its pledge to build a Polish zloty benchmark curve, offering its second ever public deal to the market on Wednesday. The deal was backed by domestic investors, and benefited from a strong order book.

Morrison Utility Services, the first UK leveraged buyout to come to market since the UK voted to leave the EU, received oversubscribed offers for its £170m loan package.

German healthcare group Fresenius has mandated three banks to provide a bridge loan for its €5.76bn acquisition of Spain’s largest private hospital group, Quirónsalud, and may add a fourth, according to a banker close to the deal.

DBS Bank in Singapore has mandated leads for a roadshow to market its first euro-denominated covered bond, and the second from a Singaporean lender in euros.

ICBC (Singapore) and Haikou Meilan International Airport sold well-digested dim sum bonds on Thursday, managing to find decent demand despite a challenging funding environment.

A pair of issuers printed at the two maturity extremes of what is possible in euro benchmarks this week, as the European Central Bank's governing council on Thursday held back from any dramatic announcements that would have opened up a wider range of issuance possibilities.

Instituto de Crédito Oficial re-entered the dollar syndication market for the first time since 2014 this week, with a deal that bankers said both highlighted the faith investors have in the Spanish recovery story and the sheer depth of demand in the currency.

One of Europe’s oldest corporate lending markets could be forging closer ties with one of its newest. The straightforward documentation of the loan market combined with longer maturities available in the Euro Private Placement market are making for compelling deal opportunities, writes Silas Brown.

Spanish telecoms provider Telefónica latched onto the swell of investor demand for riskier corners of the European investment grade corporate bond market on Thursday as it issued a €1bn hybrid bond.