UniCredit
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UniCredit has appointed two co-heads of global financing and advisory, effective immediately. -
ABB, the Swiss-Swedish machinery maker, issued an unusual bond on Tuesday: an 18 month floating rate note that grew as large as €1bn.
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Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has extended the maturity of its €6.25bn syndicated bank facility, as loan market activity picks up at the beginning of the second quarter.
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A senior director in the capital markets funding team at a German agency has left to join UniCredit’s FIG team in Munich, GlobalCapital understands.
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Sean Tai, founder of Debtdomain, spoke exclusively to GlobalCapital to discuss digital platforms in the Schuldschein market: their future, barriers to entry, the risk of fragmentation — and the possibility that Debtdomain's functionality could broaden.
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Issuance of Italian bank debt in 2019 has nearly caught up with last year’s running total. Banca Popolare di Sondrio this week followed Mediobanca and UniCredit into the market to cap off a big week of supply by the nation’s lenders. The run could yet extend further, with UBI Banca gearing up for a debut green bond.
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Strabag has signed bank facilities totalling €2.4bn, the Austrian construction and technology firm becoming the latest borrower to refinance early amid cheap funding conditions.
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Investors looking at the multi-billion euro listing of Italian payments company Nexi are largely comfortable with the country’s political environment, focusing more on whether its private equity sellers will seek too high a price.
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Market participants expect that bank capital valuations will rally much further in 2019, with investors reverting to a hunt for yield amid the prospect of interest rates being lower for longer.
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Uralkali, a Russian potash fertiliser producer, has sent out a request for proposals to lenders in a bid to raise $1bn. But bankers say that the Russian market is beset with difficulties that are delaying the few transactions in the pipeline.
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Abertis Infraestructuras, the Spanish toll roads group, launched on Monday the four tranche bond issue it had roadshowed for last week, and found Europe’s corporate bond market as avid for paper as it has been for the last couple of weeks. That enabled it to achieve a huge book totalling €14.5bn and at least one negative new issue premium.
