UniCredit

KfW extended its syndicated euro curve to 2039 on Monday as it brought a new 20 year line that was priced flat to fair value.

Germany’s FEV Group has signed a €275m five year revolver, with the engine design firm refinancing an old deal and increasing the size of its bank debt in the process.

CPI Property Group hit screens on Monday, announcing a call to promote a new subordinated euro bond.

UniCredit will seek to ensure it hits its 2019 financial targets before going ahead with a bid for Germany’s Commerzbank, if the latter’s talks with Deutsche Bank collapse.

Two renewable energy companies achieved successful euro bond issues on Thursday. Norsk Hydro, the Norwegian aluminium and renewable energy firm, and ERG, the Italian wind energy group, issuing in green format, both tightened their prices and finished with plenty of over-subscription in their books.

Spain’s Acciona has signed a €675m environmental, social and governance-linked loan. Lenders piled into the infrastructure and renewable energy group's deal after launch, enabling the size to grow by 35%.

Four new corporate bonds hit the market on Wednesday. In a change from recent days, all the deals were of moderate size and single tranched. Terna, the Italian grid operator, and Banque PSA France were typical in launching €500m no-grow deals. Book sizes diverged strongly, with those two issuers getting heavy oversubscription, while Aroundtown and Voestalpine had much less.

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.

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.

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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