Société Générale

A trio of issuers prepared to print in euros across the maturity curve in a dash before the Chinese New Year holiday starts next week, following a pair of euro benchmarks on Tuesday.

Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and L-Bank are out with long five year euro benchmarks, as bankers reported a lack of demand at the short and long end of the curve.

Société Générale has become the latest big name bank to pull back from a government’s bond business, after it resigned as a Gilt-edged market maker for the UK Debt Management Office on Friday.

Société Générale has appointed Ashwan Malhotra as managing director in a bid to strengthen its client coverage in Asia Pacific.

trueEX, a fast growing swap execution facility (SEF), has executed the first dealer to client Mexican peso interest rate swaps trades on its platform.

Infinitas, the educational publisher, has set final terms on the €435m senior secured debt package backing its acquisition by Compass Partners from Bridgepoint.

Public sector borrowers are hitting several parts of the euro curve, with dollar issuance all but dried up before the US Federal Reserve announces later on Wednesday the outcome of its Federal Open Markets Committee meeting.

A $975m refinancing for India’s Reliance Industries has opened for general syndication via 13 mandated lead arrangers and bookrunners.

B&B Hotels, France’s third largest budget hotels group, held bank meetings on Tuesday backing its €800m buyout by PAI Partners from the Carlyle Group and Montefiore Investment.

The European Financial Stability Facility will hit the short and long end of the curve with its second benchmark of the year, a move that is being viewed as an effort to achieve size and duration.

Technip, the French oilfield engineering company, raised €375m on Wednesday with a daring equity-neutral convertible bond — the first such deal since Total’s transaction in November.

Emerging market bankers are saying that greater scrutiny may now need to be paid to the ratings calendar when printing bonds after Standard & Poor’s downgrade of Poland on Friday prompted one of the worst sell-offs of an EM new issue in recent memory.