Société Générale
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Sucafina, a Swiss coffee company, has signed a $500m sustainability-linked borrowing base facility, as a small wave of deals from the German speaking region come to fruition. -
Europe’s high grade corporate bond market ignored a deeply red day in equity markets on Tuesday, and Volkswagen Leasing and Eurofins Scientific got a decent run at printing new debt.
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Macquarie is set to extend its euro curve this week, after mandating banks for its third sale of group level debt in the currency in the last 18 months.
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JSW Hydro Energy, a subsidiary of Indian power company JSW Energy, sold its first international bond this week, taking $707m from the green transaction.
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Belgium dropped into the long end of the euro curve to place a 100 year bond this week – its first private placement for seven months.
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Ceconomy, a German consumer electronics company, has signed a €1.06bn revolver linked to sustainability metrics, becoming the latest corporate to repay state support loans taken out during the worst of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Emirates telecom provider Etisalat landed in the euro market with a bond on Thursday, raising €1bn across two tranches in a currency that is fast becoming a home for EM borrowers.
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The demand for sustainability-linked bonds was made clear on Thursday, as French minerals company Imerys’s deal commanded more than double the demand of Swedish property firm Sagax’s conventional trade, despite sharing big similarities.
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Bank of Ireland and Westpac found strong demand for debut green tier two deals this week, as investors flock to this growing segment of the ESG market in search of higher returns.
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Europe’s high grade corporate bond investors clamoured for spread this week, with low triple-B rated companies Aker BP and Holding d’Infrastructures de Transport (HIT) finding ample demand a day after Eni had sold hybrid debt.
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Euronext, the Dutch-registered, Paris-headquartered stock exchanges group, brought a €1.8bn triple tranche bond issue on Thursday. Investors showed much larger appetite for the shortest maturity as inflation fears linger.
