UniCredit

Cellnex Telecom, the broadcasting tower business floated by Abertis Infraestructuras in May, marketed and sold its first bond issue on Monday, raising €600m.

The corporate bond pipeline is swelling again as Transport et Infrastructures Gaz France, the French gas distribution and storage company, mandated banks on Monday for its second ever euro deal.

HSBC has appointed Tim Spray as head of loan syndications EMEA, less than three months after he was given a new role at UniCredit.

Metalloinvest’s $750m loan was no picnic for lending banks — the Russian miner self-arranged the deal and pushed hard on pricing — but this tenacious deal will not encourage a run of Russian deals soon, according to bankers.

Deutsche Wohnen, the German property company, issued its first conventional bond on Thursday, benefiting from strong market sentiment after Greece’s parliament approved a new bailout package.

Russian iron ore producer Metalloinvest has signed a $750m pre-export finance facility, becoming the first Russian corporate borrower to follow Uralkali into the international syndicated loan market this year.

A German region managed to raise €500m via a tap and a supranational is lining up a euro deal, despite the Greek debt crisis limiting benchmark opportunities in the currency.

UniCredit CIB has hired a covered bond and SSA syndicate banker from Barclays.

Banks across Europe are coming to terms with the severity of new capital regulations. The problem now is: what, exactly, are those terms? Graham Bippart reports.

Pilot fishing has begun for what could be one of the highest profile IPOs of 2015 – that of Poste Italiane, the Italian postal service.

UniCredit has hired Pedro Fernández de Santaella as head of CIB for Iberia, at the same time as it opens a branch in Spain.

UniCredit has brought new blood to its MTN and private placement desk, hiring a new associate director.