Americas

Air Liquide and Saipem loans show that bankers and borrowers are not yet slowing down as they seek to tie up remaining bumper deals they launched in a busy fourth quarter.

Flint Group, the printing and packaging inks supplier, has allocated a €150m add on facility to the six year term loan ‘B’ it signed in May.

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) has printed a 10 year note on Monday, its first Swiss franc covered bond since 2012, and its fifth currency in covered bonds this year.

For Venezuelan bonds to jump as much as four points on a day that oil prices reached seven year lows on Monday was surely a sign that something special had happened. But some analysts felt that such will be the impact of Sunday’s parliamentary election in Venezuela that the bonds should have rallied even further.

BlackRock, Bank of New York Mellon and State Street have agreed to include Markit’s exchange traded fund collateral lists in their collateral management schedules.

Unédic and the Province of Quebec on Monday became the first issuers to print in euros since the European Central Bank disappointed market participants at a meeting of its governing council last week.

General Electric has terminated an agreement to sell its appliance business to Swedish household appliance producer Electrolux, toasting bankers' plans to provide bridge financing.

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce took advantage of the back-up in three year euro swap yields following the European Central Bank meeting last week to issue a covered bond on Monday. The issuer paid a relatively small concession, funded 10bp more cheaply than it could have done in the dollar market and placed nearly a third with central banks.

Energy company Medanito will hit the road this week to meet fixed income investors ahead of a maximum $150m deal as Argentine borrowers continue to show interest in international markets despite the small size of most companies in the country.

European regulators have ditched a long-running investigation of 13 major banks on charges of collusion in the credit default swap market, citing insufficient evidence.

Argentina’s issuers are wasting no time returning to international capital markets after Mauricio Macri’s victory in the November 22 presidential elections, though Lat Am bond bankers warned that tough times remained ahead for the country.

Bond bankers say that Mexican government-owned oil company Pemex will have to overcome fears that European investors have over emerging market and oil related names as it looks at issuing its second sterling bond.