Société Générale

Syndication has closed for a $975m refinancing for India’s Reliance Industries, with four new lenders coming in.

Oil products storage and distribution firm Puma Energy has invited banks to join a $500m loan that will refinance a one year revolver that matures this May.

Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD) will start investor meetings this week ahead of a potential public bond market debut.

Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Girozentrale (Helaba) and WL Bank met contrasting outcomes for their euro denominated German Pfandbriefe issued this week.

After a quiet week in which only two benchmark deals took place — including a debut euro benchmark from Finland's Municipality Finance — the sovereign, supranational and agency market is eagerly awaiting a deal from the European Stability Mechanism.

GlobalCapital announces the results of its Equity Capital Markets Awards for 2015, following our inaugural ECM Awards Dinner, in London on March 16.

KommuneKredit is set to print a seven year euro deal on Wednesday, following a debut euro benchmark from Municipality Finance in the form of a €1bn October 2021 on Tuesday.

Corporate bond markets snapped into bullish mode on Friday as the effect of Mario Draghi’s renewed monetary stimulus kicked spread tightening into full throttle.

ArcelorMittal’s share price shot up on Friday March 11 after the Amsterdam-listed miner and steel maker set the terms for its $3bn rights issue, but then dived on Tuesday morning and though it has recovered, is now lower than last week.

UNITe, the French renewable energy producer, has completed its first green Euro private placement. The deal will allow the company to draw the funding in instalments, a new feature for Euro PPs, though common in the US PP market.

European Central Bank president Mario Draghi did not disappoint with his latest burst of stimulus on Thursday — although some public sector bankers felt his latest efforts to boost the eurozone economy could have damaging effects on the SSA bond market.

After a string of strong syndications and auctions from the eurozone periphery during the last seven days, issuers from the region could be set to enjoy even lower yields thanks to the latest monetary stimulus package from the European Central Bank.