Société Générale

Renault, the French car maker, issued on Monday its first bond since taking a €5bn state-backed loan. Investors piled into the deal.

Gunvor, the Swiss energy trader, has signed a $1.225bn European revolving credit facility, having increased it after asset-hungry lenders oversubscribed the loan during syndication.

Klépierre, the French shopping centre operator, and UPM–Kymmene, the Finnish paper company, were two of a handful of names to receive raucous receptions from the bond market this week. Issuers benefited as a wave of market-friendly news turned the focus in Europe’s high grade bond market back to a risk on mode.

Issuers are winding down their funding programmes before the end of the year and several smaller SSAs have turned to MTNs to complete the little they have left to do. The big deals of the week, however, came from corporates, with Volkswagen and Eurogrid coming in at opposite ends of the curve.

Unédic, the French unemployment agency, will look to complete its €15bn funding programme on Thursday, coming to market in the footsteps of the EU’s second outing.

Emerging market issuers have crept back into the small issuance window in international markets after a brief pause for the US elections, with Dubai Islamic Bank and Uzbekistan’s Ipoteka Bank issuing dollar-denominated bonds this week.

Société Générale said on Monday that planned "adjustments and optimisations" should lead to a net reduction of around 640 posts in France, as it changes its structured products business and mulls altering securities services too.

Vattenfall, the Swedish energy company, has swapped its €2bn bank line with a sustainability-linked facility, with the deal defining the borrower’s core banking group.

Société Générale’s third quarter investment banking figures showed a sharp improvement from earlier in the year, as the impact of the European dividend cancellations and losses on complex structured products washed out of the numbers. But the French firm’s financing activities, geared more to aircraft and project lending than its rivals, have seen less benefit from booming corporate debt markets.

Russia's second largest gold producer Polymetal has raised a green loan.

Ile-de-France Mobilités is coming to market for a 15 year euro benchmark, set to become one of several French borrowers expected before the end of the year.

Enagás, the Spanish gas transmission and network company, came to the bond market for a rare trade on Tuesday, as European Central Bank bond buying continues to make syndicate bankers' lives difficult by taking spreads in strange directions.