UniCredit
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A big step in restoring Italy's banking sector to health was taken successfully this week, when the fifth biggest EMEA equity sale ever raised €13bn for UniCredit. -
Landesbank Baden-Württemberg and WL Bank successively priced the tightest covered bonds of the year this week and both were able to tighten pricing to a greater extent than any previous German issuer.
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Details have emerged of the financing CVC will use to buy Polish retail chain Żabka Polska, its second takeover in the region.
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Mid Europa Partner’s syndicated loan, which will finance its purchase of Romanian supermarket chain Profi Rom Food, is set to be finalised by the end of the week according to a banker on the deal.
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Yapi Kredi reopened the Turkish financial bond market on Tuesday, garnering a $1.2bn book that was sticky enough to allow the issuer to tighten pricing 37.5bp — good news for the $3.7bn worth of Turkish financial senior bonds that will need refinancing this year.
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Companies were able to tighten pricing on euro deals this week, as investors said they expected the corporate market to keep shrugging off the political headline risks in Europe that have prompted widening in some government bonds.
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French issuers appear unfazed by political turbulence afflicting their sovereign's curve, with two borrowers in the market this week. Meanwhile, the European Financial Stability Facility sold its largest deal tranche in over 2.5 years.
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Yapi ve Kredi Bankasi is the first of the Turkish banks to follow a successful sovereign tap last week, and with Turkish bank debt well bid in secondaries, it will be expecting a better result than its last senior trade.
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The European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) has surprised SSA bankers by returning to the long end with one tranche of a deal it plans to launch on Tuesday.
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