Société Générale
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Corporate bond bankers are busy, for this time of year. While they are usually up for doing deals, it is clear investors, too, are in no hurry to close their books for the year, but are keen to buy paper, despite the let-down of the European Central Bank’s lukewarm QE boost last week.
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Corporate treasurers across Europe will be thanking Daimler today, as the German car maker took the lead on Tuesday and showed that the bond market is wide open for deals.
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India’s Reliance Industries has selected a group of 13 lenders for a $1bn loan that will refinance a borrowing raised in 2010. -
Unédic and the Province of Quebec on Monday became the first issuers to print in euros since the European Central Bank disappointed market participants at a meeting of its governing council last week.
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Vivalto Santé, the French private health service provider, has announced €228m of loans for its leveraged buyout by Mubadala Development Co, the Abu Dhabi Government owned investment and development company.
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Russian steel company Evraz is roadshowing a Reg S senior unsecured dollar bond through six active bookrunners and two passive, in tandem with a tender offer.
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Austrian oil and gas company OMV emerged on Monday with a dual tranche hybrid bond that had been promised since August, but a broader revival for the product may have to wait until next year.
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Havas, the French advertising and communications company, satisfied investors' taste for unrated paper on Tuesday as it gathered an almost three times oversubscribed book for its €400m bond.
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Banks can look forward to regularly pricing green bonds inside their vanilla senior curves, some FIG bankers believe, after BPCE launched the latest in a succession of tight trades on Wednesday.
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A $1.5bn refinancing for Tata Steel has finally been opened into syndication, with invitations going out to a limited number of banks on Thursday. The company’s Singaporean subsidiary is raising the loan, which offers lenders an added incentive if they book the deal in the country.
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Hungarian Development Bank (MFB) printed on Tuesday a €300m 2.375% six year bond, in line with price guidance released earlier that day, bringing a fresh euro benchmark to the country.
