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The extraordinary conditions in Europe’s investment grade corporate bond market, in which three issuers in succession had printed multi-tranche bonds this week with no new issue premiums, produced a new bizarre result on Wednesday when Sanofi, one of the market’s tightest-trading issuers, took its turn. -
Municipality Finance (Muni Fin) printed a $1bn no-grow short five year bond on Wednesday, joining World Bank at the tenor in a dollar market that bankers said has offered something for everyone this week.
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China’s Frontage Holdings Corp, which provides support to pharmaceutical companies, has refiled a draft IPO prospectus with Hong Kong’s stock exchange.
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Garanti Bank, Turk Eximbank and Ziraat Bank have begun refinancing one year loans, according to two loans bankers. Pricing is said to be in line with Akbank, which launched a refinancing in early February.
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A unit of insurer Standard Life is looking to bag at least Rp25bn ($359.8m) by trimming its stake in HDFC Life Insurance Co.
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Embassy Office Parks Real Estate Investment Trust (Reit) has global long-only investors on tenterhooks as it prepares to launch its smaller-than-expected Rp47.5bn ($683m) IPO, having filed the final terms for India’s first Reit listing.
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Pepsico took one of its rare sips at the euro bond market on Monday, and was rewarded with two bonds, seen as priced flat to and through its curve. After the European corporate bond market was clouded by weak secondary trading last week, it was back on form on Monday.
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Whether Vodafone’s £3.44bn issue of two and three year mandatorily convertible bonds on Tuesday this week ends up being judged a corporate finance success for the company may take time to discover. But it is already clear it was a great hit with investors — much more so than the first time Vodafone issued the structure in 2016.
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The root of arbitrage is the same thing being priced differently in two markets. As markets have got bigger and more sophisticated, arbitrage has become harder to find.
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Shares in Funding Circle Holdings, the UK peer-to-peer lending platform, closed up on Thursday despite the company reporting a widening loss in 2018 because of the costs of its £440m IPO on the London Stock Exchange in September.
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Pearson, the UK educational publisher, has signed a $1.2bn bank facility with a novel margin link to the company’s progress in educational reach, but loans bankers say that this increasingly popular form of funding is unlikely to drag the market out of its low volume melancholy.
