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.

Italian defence contractor Finmeccanica has refinanced its flagship revolving credit facility in a bustling Italian loan market.

Turkish financial institutions have taken no notice of the slowdown of deals elsewhere in the CEEEMEA region, with several deals progressing this week.

Halkbank has agreed a $888m equivalent loan with banks, making use of the novel 364/367 day tenor structure introduced by peer Turkish banks this year.