Société Générale

South Korea’s Woori Bank sealed a 144A return to the international bond market on January 12. The issuer’s aggressive pricing strategy kept US investors at bay, but it was unavoidable as the borrower wanted cheap funding, said bankers on the deal.

The European Financial Stability Facility and Nederlandse Waterschapsbank on Tuesday brought euro benchmarks in five and seven year maturities. Now much more at those tenors is expected.

Investors barely charged Mediobanca and Royal Bank of Canada on Tuesday for printing new five year senior bonds.

Intesa Sanpaolo opened the 2016 additional tier one (AT1) market on Tuesday with its euro debut, and is now over halfway to its 2017 issuance target.

With only one small tap launched so far in Europe's high yield bond market this year, investors are disappointed with the scarcity of deals in the pipeline.

Banks now know where they need to be in terms of the FSB’s total loss absorbing capacity (TLAC) requirements, but one big problem remains: how they’re going to get there. Tyler Davies reports.

Ping An Life Insurance Company of China started building books for its inaugural dollar bond on Tuesday, while South Korea’s Woori Bank and China Energy Reserve and Chemicals Group are also wooing investors for their respective dollar deals.

A bevvy of public sector borrowers are lining up euro deals for Tuesday and beyond — but some are opting to hold back price thoughts amid a cluttered and volatile backdrop.

B&B Hotels, France’s third largest budget hotels group, launched a covenant-lite senior term loan to early birds this week, backing its €800m buyout by PAI Partners from the Carlyle Group and Montefiore Investment.

Republic of Poland offered a healthy concession in the early pricing stages as it ventured into the markets with the first bond from CEEMEA in 2016 on Monday.

Atalian Global, the French facilities management company, on Monday opened the first roadshow of 2016 for a high yield bond in Europe, as it announced the acquisition of US peer Temco Facility Services.

BBVA, BFCM and BPCE met with strong investor demand for euro senior unsecured deals on Monday, as peripheral and longer dated debt proved no deterrent to buyers.