Bank of America
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The major US banks posted surging fixed income numbers in the fourth quarter last year, driven by the Donald Trump and Fed-inspired steepening yield curve, and a flurry of trading around the election itself. This performance turned the year’s normal progress on its end, as a strong fourth quarter made up for a lacklustre first.
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The tally of sterling high yield bond sales in January is on course to reach £2bn, a sensational reversal from 2016’s entire first quarter without issuance in the currency, with several issues this week despite news that the UK will seek to leave the EU single market. -
Guarantor: Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board
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Guarantor: Financial Market Stabilisation Fund of the Federal Republic of Germany
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US bank bosses, facing investors at results announcements this week for the first time since Donald Trump’s election victory, tackled questions about whether the post-Trump optimism was justified — and how their businesses would benefit from easier regulation and lighter taxes.
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British American Tobacco’s (BAT) acquisition of US rival Reynolds American will trigger other merger talks across the tobacco industry which could see financing deals rolling up to capital markets, loan bankers believe. Silas Brown reports.
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Wall Street banks celebrated a surge in earnings by flooding the dollar market with multi-billion dollar trades featuring callable tranches this week.
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Bank of America Merrill Lynch will soon syndicate a €4bn bridge loan it has underwritten to back French aerospace group Safran’s acquisition of Zodiac Aerospace, the French maker of aircraft seats and interiors. The two companies want to leapfrog up the pecking order of aircraft parts suppliers.
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The tally of sterling high yield bond sales in January is on course to reach £2bn after Jaguar Land Rover on Thursday launched a new £300m offering, adding to a recent surge of deals in the currency.
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TPG Stallion Holdings raised HK$542.7m ($70.0m) after offloading a chunk of its stock in Chinese firm Li Ning Co this week, while Malaysia’s Federal Land Development Authority (FELDA) sold a block of Maybank shares for MR281.7m ($63.3m).
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Repeat Chinese issuer Yuzhou Properties Company and debut credits Reward Science and Technology Industry Group Co and United Photovoltaics pushed into the busy Wednesday market, looking to close dollar deals before the holiday.
