Société Générale

Mizuho issued five year and 10 year senior bonds this week, fixing spreads for the two instruments at 65bp and 67bp, respectively.

Compared with last year, employees at BNP Paribas and Société Générale are more disapproving of their chief executives and less optimistic on the outlook for their firms over the next six months, according to analysis carried out by UBS.

Natixis has been building out its Asia Pacific presence, making some senior changes to its global markets team and adding three new bankers.

Investment grade green loans have flourished this year, despite a decline in volumes in the wider loan market. Codification of green and sustainability linked financing by international loan trade associations has boosted environmental, social and governance (ESG) loan issuance in the developed markets, but the emerging markets have so far struggled to get going. Will that change as interest in green financing grows across CEEMEA?

Investors threw themselves behind a short-dated floating rate note from Société Générale on Thursday, shrugging off the bleak outlook for European interest rates. The strength of demand allowed the French bank to raise €1.75bn.

The hail of issuance in European corporate bonds continued at full pelt on Wednesday as Orange and National Grid joined the fray with multi-tranche deals. Investors and issuers seem equally eager to do business.

Europe's corporate bond market opened emphatically for business on Tuesday, as seven issuers banished all memories of the summer holiday. Despite there being plenty of choice for investors, demand was high across the board. Multiple deals were two to three times oversubscribed, while the largest, a €3.5bn four trancher from Siemens, the machinery maker, was nearly 4.5 times covered.

E.On has opened a new era. While several investment grade companies have printed bonds at negative yields before, few have come close to the -0.149% at which the Baa2/BBB rated German power company reached with the five year wing of its €1.5bn dual tranche deal on Wednesday.

Europe's bond market reopened for the autumn issuance season this week — but it is a new bond market. The summer's queasy bout of bearishness has pushed government bond yields to unprecedented lows and these are now for the first time being tested as a platform for private sector bond issuance.

E.On, the German electricity company, ended Europe's summer lull in investment grade corporate bond issuance on Wednesday, and opened a new era in pricing, with the first ever five year bond at a negative yield. And E.On is only rated triple-B.

Aperam, the steel producer headquartered in Luxembourg, has entered the Schuldschein market, on the hunt for at least €100m.

The first investment grade euro corporate bond since Daimler's €3bn four trancher at the beginning of August appeared on Wednesday morning. E.ON, the Baa2/BBB rated energy company, is in the market with a debut green bond — a benchmark five, and 10.5 year dual tranche deal.