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The elimination of Juventus from football's Champions League on April 16 wiped €390m off its market capitalisation by the following morning, highlighting the risks of owning equity in Europe’s premier football clubs.

The covered bond industry and the Capital Markets Union (CMU) hit a new milestone on Thursday after the European Parliament’s plenary in Strasbourg adopted the text of the Covered Bond Directive just after midday.

MUFG has relocated 21 staff to Paris, including all its European DCM origination bankers, all its sales people who cover European investors and an MTN banker.

Bank of America has hired for its hybrid capital structuring team from Morgan Stanley.

Co-operative Bank managed to raise £200m of tier two capital this week, in its first bond sale since coming close to failing in 2017. A healthy coupon of 9.5% helped the UK lender to find the demand it needed, even if one investor said that there was still “not much to like” about its credit profile.

Neil Garrod, group treasury director at Vodafone and one of the best known figures in the European corporate bond market, is understood to be leaving the UK mobile phone group. He is in talks with another company about becoming its finance chief.

First Abu Dhabi Bank has printed two sterling private placements in the last week — the most recent Tuesday morning’s £120m note through JP Morgan — adding to a flurry of sterling trades from the Middle East.

Another day, another Santander call option. The bank revealed this week that it will call its 6.375% $1.5bn additional tier one perpetual note. In February it became the first bank ever to extend the life of an AT1, but its move this week gave market participants better insight into how it is likely to treat call decisions.

Toronto-Dominion Bank has become the first Canadian issuer to launch a bail-inable senior bond publicly in euros, impressing on-looking bankers by landing the deal with a very tight spread to mid-swaps.

Latin America’s largest telecoms company, América Móvil, sold dollar bonds for the first time in seven years on Monday, returning to refinance debt and establish two benchmarks.

Greece is rumoured to be planning a return to the bond market in the summer to fund an early repayment of its loans to the International Monetary Fund.

La Banque Postale saved around 2bp on pricing by going green on its latest inaugural 10 year senior non-preferred paper, reaffirming the discrepancy between supply and demand in the euro green bond market.