Société Générale

Poland on Monday announced a €1bn 12 year note, its first euro-denominated offering since January 2014.

UK broadcaster Sky has issued its first floating rate note, a €600m five year.

Société Générale has given seven of its bankers the title of senior banker, meaning they are top of the coverage tree for their business lines.

The spate of very large and strategic block trades has continued this week, with sales of stock in Accor, Dassault Aviation, the London Stock Exchange and Havas, totalling an expected €5.2bn.

Akbank paid 12.5bp NIP for a rare 10 year senior bond from a Turkish bank on Tuesday, the bank’s second appearance in the international market this year.

Aabar Investments, the Abu Dhabi investment group, raised €2bn with its second exchangeable bond on Tuesday, to repay a €1.25bn exchangeable into Daimler shares it issued in 2011.

Veolia Environnement, the French water and waste management company, has announced a global investor call for a new bond issue as it tenders for three existing notes.

Touax Group, the French container leasing company, on Tuesday began marketing a €200m secured bond as it refinances its balance sheet.

Akbank has returned to market with a 10 year $500m no grow, its second dollar offering of the year and its second instalment of a $1bn refinancing.

Two equity block trades are in the market tonight, both in supermarket groups: Russia’s Lenta and France’s Carrefour.

Aabar Investments, the investment arm of Abu Dhabi’s International Petroleum Investment Corp, is this evening bookbuilding a bond of €1.5bn to €2bn, exchangeable into shares of UniCredit.

Paprec Group, the French waste recycling company, sold a dual-tranche green bond last Friday (March 20), in the fourth such deal in the high yield market, according to Standard & Poor’s research.