UniCredit

Veteran UniCredit banker Jan Kupfer, will now head corporate and investment banking in Germany for the firm, following Michael Diederich's move to the role of country chairman and chief executive of UniCredit’s German entity. Diederich’s move was announced by the bank in November.

Siemens has begun the IPO process for the highly anticipated spin-off of its health division, Siemens Healthineers, by releasing its intention to float document.

Deal flow in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) is picking up, according to international loan bankers, with more pre-export finance facilities from Russia and some anticipated event driven transactions in the rest of the region.

Bookrunners will start marketing the financing for KKR’s buyout of Unilever’s spread business as soon as next week, with the European high yield bond and the leveraged loan market both braced for supply.

Wabco Europe BVBA, an industrial equipment supplier with headquarters in Brussels, has launched a €200m inaugural Schuldschein. The deal is guaranteed by Wabco Holdings, a company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

The Frankfurt IPO of German real estate developer Instone finished on a strong note on Wednesday, despite the company having to bookbuild during an extraordinarily volatile week for equity markets.

Credit Bank of Moscow and Domodedovo Airport (DME) brought the total Eurobond tally of Russian issuers this year to seven this week. Those latest two issuers jumped in shortly after Directive 1 sanction fears were quashed by the US Treasury.

State owned German rail operator Deutsche Bahn had a clear run at the euro investment grade corporate bond market on Thursday when it decided to sell its second bond of the year in the currency. The 15.5 year tenor it opted for extended its existing debt curve.

Italian high speed train operator Italo pulled its IPO on Wednesday night, the day before the syndicate was due to release a price range, of €1.5bn to €1.6bn, in order to take a €1.98bn offer from New-York based private equity firm Global Infrastructure Partners.

Credit Bank of Moscow printed a $500m five year bond from a book in excess of $1.1bn on Wednesday, quelling fears of EM new issues shutting down in face of US Treasury yield rises. Domodedovo Airport looks next to print in dollars from the country while the State Transport Leasing Company has also mandated for a bond.

State owned German rail operator Deutsche Bahn had a clear run at the euro investment grade corporate bond market on Thursday when it decided to sell its second bond of the year in the currency. The 15.5 year tenor the issuer opted for extended its existing debt curve.

GlobalCapital revealed the winners of its 2017 Loan Awards at its annual Loans and Leveraged Finance Awards Dinner at Gibson Hall in London on February 7. The full results are below: GlobalCapital congratulates all the winners and nominees.