UniCredit
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Shares in Enav, the Italian state air traffic control operator, closed 11% higher on their first day of trading on the Milan Stock Exchange today.
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UniCredit's new chief executive, Jean Pierre Mustier, has simplified the bank's management structure, cutting the number of his direct reports, naming a new CFO and COO, and handing Gianni Franco Papa, a broader, group-wide role.
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French residential real estate company Foncia on Monday reopened the book for a €800m loan backing its acquisition by a Partners Group-led consortium, after tightening pricing beyond guidance.
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The privatisation of Enav, the Italian air traffic control system, reached a successful conclusion on Thursday, proving that large IPOs can still happen in the post-Brexit equity market, even in Italy, where stocks have been hit hard.
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Lecta Group, the southern European coated paper manufacturer, on Friday printed a €600m two tranche bond in a high yield market comfortably readjusted to post-Brexit times, as issuance surpassed €2.5bn in five days.
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European Central Bank president Mario Draghi has in effect told market participants to come back after summer if they want to see any further monetary stimulus — but belief that such stimulus is on the way helped a trio of euro deals this week.
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An attempted coup in Turkey last Friday threw its borrowers into a maelstrom of pulled bonds, credit rating uncertainty, and the country itself into a three month state of emergency. Unlike their loan market counterparts, bond and money market investors have been wary of calling the bottom of the resulting sell-off, but the damage is contained as EM bond inflows enjoyed another record week, writes Francesca Young.
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Kazakhstani crude oil company Tengizchevroil (TCO) pulled in pricing 50bp from initial guidance on Wednesday to print its $1bn 2026s only 10bp over the Kazakhstan sovereign, according to a bookrunner on the deal.
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Dutch-American materials firm Advanced Metallurgical Group has amended a $320m loan. The issuer also improved the terms of the deal, having made a commitment in 2011 to lower its leverage.
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Kazakhstani crude oil company Tengizchevroil (TCO) has released price guidance for its $1bn 10 year bond at 300bp over US Treasuries, a level that one analyst called fair.
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The public sector bond market is enjoying its third busy week in a row, as issuers of a varying credit quality took advantage of enviable conditions to win big books and tight pricing on a kaleidoscope of deals.
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CVC-owned German cosmetics retailer Douglas has launched a repricing request for its €1.22bn cov-lite term loan ‘B’, holding an investor call on Tuesday afternoon.