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Shares in Segro, the UK property developer, closed 6% lower on Friday after it announced a £556m rights issue to finance its buyout of Aviva from a joint venture at London’s Heathrow Airport. -
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The African Development Bank (AfDB) this week became the latest public sector borrower to enjoy the red hot dollar market, printing a trade that drew an order book larger than its entire 2012 funding programme. Widening swap spreads have been a major factor in the dollar market’s fantastic run this year but a double whammy of event risk next Wednesday could bring it shuddering to a halt, writes Craig McGlashan.
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Turkish lender Vakifbank is on a roll in the loan market this week, out with a bilateral facility and a syndicated deal.
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The African Development Bank sold its largest ever benchmark on Wednesday, in a deal which bankers said should hammer home the issuer’s “new style” to investors. Meanwhile, Municipality Finance brought its first dollar benchmark of the year.
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Shares in Ascential, the UK events and publishing company that runs the Cannes Lions festival, closed 1.4% higher on Tuesday after Guardian Media Group (GMG) and Apax sold the last of their stock through an accelerated bookbuild led by Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML), Deutsche Bank and Numis Securities.
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The European corporate high yield market sized up a €1.25bn two tranche deal from Nokia on Monday that became the third biggest high yield bond since August last year.
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Hindalco Industries’ Rp33.4bn ($500m) overnight fundraising was an unqualified success, with some $1.5bn of orders flooding in from global accounts, according to bankers on the trade.
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ICICI Bank made an opportunistic move on Thursday, snagging a 5.5 year bond at the tightest spread for an Indian lender in nearly a decade.
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China South City Holdings raised $300m on Thursday in a deal that was described as relatively straightforward, thanks to the fact that the property developer has already established a debt curve.
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Hindalco Industries’ qualified institutional placement, which launched on Thursday night in India to raise up to Rp33.4bn ($500m), is set to price with no discount to the last close, bankers on the deal said.
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