Société Générale

Standard Chartered and Société Générale were both marketing dollar-denominated tier two bonds on Tuesday, as they looked to add to the $10.45bn of loss-absorbing debt Europe's banks have already raised in the US this month.

Commodities trader Noble Group is in the spotlight again after Fitch and Moody's published divergent ratings on Monday. Fitch took a more benign view on Noble, but Moody's downgraded it to B2 from Ba3 with a negative outlook.

Morrison Utility Services launched on Wednesday £170m of loans to early bird syndication, bringing supply to a market where sterling issuance has dropped more than 55% year to date.

The London Metals Exchange plans to offer a range of exchange traded and centrally cleared precious metal products, starting with gold and silver spot and futures contracts.

Morrison Utility Services is to launch this week loans backing the first UK leveraged buyout since Britain’s vote to leave the EU, according to a banker with knowledge of the deal.

Petit Forestier, the French refrigerated vehicle leasing firm, closed syndication of its €525m acquisition loan earlier this week with oversubscribed commitments from lenders.

France's Danone has completed syndication of $13.1bn of loans to fund the $12.5bn acquisition of North American organic food and drinks company White Wave. But there might not be many more jumbo deals this year, as political volatility looks set to hang over the M&A market for a little longer, writes Robert Cooke.

Energias de Portugal made an opportunistic grab for euros on Thursday, proving that even as August begins, healthy order books and negative new issue premiums are still available for corporate bond issuers.

Chief executive Frédéric Oudéa warned of further turbulence as a year-on-year slump in Société Générale’s equities business drove profits at its investment bank 36.2% lower. Group profits, however, were cushioned by strong international retail banking income and the sale of shares in Visa Europe.

Spain’s Cellnex Telecom, a broadcasting towers business, hit the investment grade and high yield euro markets on Monday, just over six weeks after it roadshowed for the deal.

Euro high yield issuance has largely brushed off concerns about the UK's vote to leave the European Union, but despite a surge of deals some corporates are still holding back from the market.

Euros had to play second fiddle to a rampant dollar market this week, but there was still a steady flow of deals at the smaller end of the size scale.