UniCredit

Konecta, the Spanish call centre operator, has closed its €195m acquisition debt in a club deal with four banks.

ThyssenKrupp, the German industrial group, joined the surge of corporate bond issuance on Tuesday as the fallen angel company raised €750m.

Banca Popolare di Vicenza has filed a request for admission of its shares on Borsa Italiana, ahead of a shareholder vote to approve the bank’s IPO and capital increase.

A €1.6bn loan for the Czech Republic’s Energetický a Průmyslový Holding (EPH) was so popular that it received enough commitments to close after early bird funding, according to a banker close to the deal.

IBM wasted little time after its $5bn five tranche trip to the dollar market a fortnight ago, moving to tap the euro market for a €2.25bn triple trancher this week.

UniCredit was largely absent from the euro senior market last year, but, having successfully priced a new seven year last Friday, the bank’s head of group finance expects a busier year in 2016.

UniCredit launched its first public senior unsecured bond in over a year on Friday, drawing strong demand and giving the FIG market a confidence boost.

Coal is about the most basic commodity. It has become deeply unfashionable in recent years, tarred as the worst culprit in global warming. The charge may be true, but the accusations are so vehement partly because promoters of other hydrocarbons — oil, gas, biofuels — want to disguise their own responsibility.

This week the Schuldschein market completed what could be its second largest deal ever, for Aldi subsidiary Hofer, and also launched its first two green deals — in what looks like another impressive year for the market.

Saipem, the Italian oil and gas engineering group, failed to sell all of its €3.5bn rights issue to shareholders by last Friday, in an ominous sign for other commodities firms that may still need to raise fresh capital.

In a very low-key transaction, the Czech Republic’s Energetický a průmyslový Holding (EPH) will complete its €1.5bn loan refinancing in the coming days.

The SSA market has seen a steady stream of activity across the euro and dollar markets this week. The European Stability Mechanism priced the week’s biggest deal on Tuesday, printing €4bn in 10 and 40 year tenors. Meanwhile African Development Bank led the charge in dollars, preparing to print a $1bn no-grow in its first benchmark deal of the year.