UniCredit

An incredible streak of record breaking low yields skipped through the covered bond market this week as issuers from Germany and France set new records, while another outside the Eurozone issued the first deal longer than 10 years with a coupon below 1%. Despite the low level of return, investors piled into all three euro transactions.

Constantia Flexibles, the Austrian food packaging company, marketed a €1.3bn loan to lenders at a London bank meeting on Monday.

The Schuldschein market is not sitting back and basking in the glory of ZF Friedrichshafen’s €2.2bn deal in January. There are a large number of deals in the market from local and international issuers including Telefónica Deutschland, Gerry Weber, and Rhenus Logistics.

UniCredit SpA’s full year results disappointed on Wednesday. While at group level it recorded a €2bn profit, disappointing revenues at both group and core bank level, and a shrinking CET1 ratio have sent the bank’s share price tumbling.

The Republic of Bulgaria has said it is mandating Citigroup, HSBC, Société Générale and UniCredit as “arrangers and dealers” on its €8bn global medium term note programme, according to a release on the country’s Ministry of Finance website. The programme was signed on February 6.

High yield investors grabbed bonds from lift component maker Wittur and Swiss telco Sunrise Communications on Tuesday, even after absorbing GTech’s €4.4bn-equivalent offer over the previous 24 hours.

Survitec, the UK survival equipment provider, has opened books on a £250m-equivalent term loan backing its buyout by Onex.

The acquisition of Las Vegas-based International Gaming Technology by the Italian gambling technology company GTech took a step ahead on Tuesday as GTech raised €4.4bn in euros and dollars, in the second biggest European high yield deal so far this year.

CA Immo Anlagen, the Austrian property company, has sold a €175m seven year unsecured bond to retail intermediaries and institutional investors. It was the company's first bond since 2009.

Constantia Flexibles, the Austrian food packaging company, is marketing a €1.3bn loan to lenders at a London bank meeting this Monday.

SIG Combibloc has followed Altice's recent example by demonstrating the European market’s keen appetite for large leveraged M&A deals. SIG has tightened pricing on the loans in its €2.8bn deal and replaced some of the deal's bonds with loans.

Host Europe, the German online hosting provider, has been delayed in closing books for its £535m loan for the acquisition of Intergenia, after the consent process for the deal took longer than expected.