Bank of America
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SIG Combibloc has followed Altice's recent example by demonstrating the European market’s keen appetite for large leveraged M&A deals. SIG has tightened pricing on the loans in its €2.8bn deal and replaced some of the deal's bonds with loans. -
Turkey's Halkbank priced its new $500m six year bond with a 2bp-3bp new issue premium on Wednesday, but the underlying swap rate had rallied 10bp throughout the day, meaning that the nominal premium was perhaps more attractive than it otherwise would have been.
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Equity block trade activity picked up in Europe this week, though bankers still think it can get busier, as companies emerge from blackouts in the coming weeks.
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Things just keep getting better for British Telecom. The fixed line incumbent’s shares soared 4.5% on Thursday after it announced final details of its £12.5bn takeover of EE, the UK’s largest and most advanced mobile phone company.
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Turkey's Halkbank priced its new $500m six year bond with a 2bp-3pb new issue premium on Wednesday but the underlying swap rate had rallied 10bp throughout the day meaning that the nominal premium was perhaps more attractive than it otherwise would have been.
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Coal India completed one of the country's largest ECM deals on January 30 with a Rp226.13bn ($3.68bn) divestment of part of the government’s stake. Bankers lauded the trade, which had been two years in the making, and believe it will keep the momentum going for several more share sales that are due to hit the market before India ends its fiscal year in March.
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HDFC Bank was set to price a blockbuster Rp100bn ($1.6bn) trade on the evening of February 5, with bankers expecting investors to fork out money at the tightest possible discount for the second Indian ECM transaction of more than $1bn to hit the market in the past week.
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Reliance Industries tapped the dollar bond market for the second time in two weeks, raising $750m from a 30 year bond on February 3. Even though it was not by design, having the deal come at a later stage proved to be a masterstroke as Reliance was able to achieve some top notch pricing.
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The European high yield market on Tuesday keenly accepted the first triple-C rated deals of the year: a buyout financing bond from Swiss carton maker SIG Combibloc and a refinancing issue for Norske Skog, the paper company.
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Halkbank is on track to price the third financial bond from Turkey this year and is out in the market with a new $500m six year bond.
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Reliance Industries tapped the dollar bond market for the second time in two weeks, raising $750m from a 30 year bond on February 3. Even though it was not by design, having the deal come at a later stage proved to be a masterstroke as Reliance was able to achieve some top notch pricing.
