Société Générale

Globalworth, a Romania-headquartered real estate investment company, has secured a €200m revolving credit facility from a consortium of local and international lenders.

As Elizabeth Warren’s chances of clinching the Democratic Party nomination for the 2020 US presidential election increase, so have investors' needs to hedge the volatility that a free market sceptic will bring to the country's equity markets. Société Générale believes it has a solution.

The People’s Republic of China has caused a stir among DCM bankers in Asia and Europe with plans to return to the euro bond market for the first time since 2004. While expectations on opposite sides of the world are starkly different, what is clear is that the sovereign’s deal will be less about the pricing itself and more about making a statement. Addison Gong and Burhan Khadbai report.

Hyundai Capital America has priced a $800m three year bond alongside a $700m seven year, raising more than expected from its latest outing.

French car parts supplier Faurecia dipped into the bond markets again as it prepares to take over full control of its joint venture with Continental. It is adding €250m of senior notes to the €500m of 2026 notes it issued in the spring.

Infrequent issuer Toyota Industries Finance International revisited the MTN market at the end of last week to place its second euro floater of the year. Meanwhile, in dollars, a trio of emerging market banks have printed fixed and floating rate paper in the last week.

Rusal has signed the first internationally syndicated sustainability-linked loan from Russia. The heavily oversubscribed facility is part of a slowly growing shift towards green financing in Russia, said bankers.

Investors piled into a new hybrid bond for hotel group Accor this week to oversubscribe the €500m deal by almost six times. The demand reflected a ramping up of the hunt for yield as the European Central Bank stokes the fires of its corporate bond buying programme.

Norilsk Nickel printed a five year Eurobond on Monday, raising $750m with its lowest ever coupon.

Banco BPM extended the run of recent Italian bank bond supply this week, launching a preferred senior bond. The deal was launched at 200bp over mid-swaps and did not offer a new issue premium to investors, according to a banker on the deal.

Russian nickel and palladium producer Norilsk Nickel has kept momentum from a roadshow last week to hit the market with a five year benchmark dollar trade as two other issuers prepared investors for their own deals this week.

Credito Emiliano continued an Italian bank bond spree on Friday, choosing a quiet day to market a debut non-preferred senior bond. The deal comes one day after Banca del Mezzogiorno priced a social bond.