Société Générale

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.

French luxury goods holding company Kering has issued a €500m seven year bond.

Slovenia printed its longest ever bond on Wednesday, a 20 year, taking advantage of a near halving of its spreads since the start of this year to print inside where Spain's government bonds trade.

Bulgaria was offering generous premiums on its triple tranche Eurobond on Thursday. But while bankers said pricing looks cheap, they questioned whether the 20 year tranche would sell well.

UCB, the unrated Belgian pharmaceuticals company, is sounding out demand for a senior unsecured euro bond for general financing purposes among European investors.