UniCredit

On Thursday, German car manufacturer Daimler made its second visit to the corporate bond market with a €2.25bn dual tranche offering. This followed a $4bn seven tranche issue on Monday.

Supranationals are making the most of demand in Romanian lei, picking up short dated funding in the currency.

Puma Energy has closed a $1.37bn syndicated loan, with commitments from 48 banks helping the company boost its fundraising.

Metinvest, the Ukrainian metals and mining company, has refinanced the bulk of its pre-export finance (PXF) facility through the loan market, though some of its lenders have switched out of the loan to buy its concurrently issued bonds.

Gruppo EF Solare Italia, Italy's leading photovoltaic solar energy company, has signed a €1bn project finance loan to refinance its debt after rapid growth through acquisitions.

Sok Marketler, the Turkish discount grocer, has set the range on its Istanbul IPO, valuing it at Tl6.9bn (1.7bn) to Tl8.3bn ($2.05bn).

German car leasing company Sixt Leasing had the benefit of meeting more than 30 investors and seeing another car leasing company print a deal before coming to market on Tuesday. However, based on order book size and pricing, this backdrop didn't help much.

After selling €4.6bn of loans in March, Unilever Spreads unveiled the €1bn high yield bond portion of its leveraged buyout funding package on Wednesday. But as well as jumbo deals, other borrowers with smaller offerings are also vying for investor attention.

EPIF Infrastructure, has released initial price guidance for a six year fixed rate euro benchmark.

Lukoil has raised a $600m 10 year export credit agency-backed loan via its Uzbekistan subsidiary, as bankers say the loan market remains open for some Russian borrowers.

When GlobalCapital surveyed leaders in the European equity markets as to which deal should be called the deal of the year, the answer was unequivocal. The rights issue for UniCredit was such an important deal and it went so well, that its ramifications are still being felt. It was an outstanding achievement in the face of difficult market conditions and set in play a widespread recovery in European equity capital markets.

German residential property company Grand City Properties brought its third corporate bond deal of 2018 to the market on Tuesday, while the return of seed company Syngenta with a jumbo multi-tranche deal neared.