Bank of America
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German semiconductor maker Infineon has signed €1.55bn of loans which will go towards its $3bn purchase of California-based International Rectifier Corp. -
Rongshi International Holding Company has launched its $150m offshore debut into limited syndication, with two banks at the top.
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Bank of America Merrill Lynch has hired from within for the newly created role of head of southeast Asia equity capital markets in Singapore. The hire beefs up the bank’s Asian ECM senior management team.
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Venezuela has begun to pay the $4.5bn in debt maturity payments owed by the sovereign and by oil company PDVSA. But while bondholders may breathe more easily, analysts say devaluation is needed urgently as the country continues to suffer excess demand for dollars.
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Latin America’s debt bankers believe that periods of volatility caused by US interest rate rises and secondary market illiquidity will not derail the stomping progress of the region’s cross-border bond market, which is set for another record-breaking year.
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The green bond market has enjoyed one of the most remarkable weeks in its short life, with a series of deals that bankers say could help change the future of the market — and that all were priced roughly close to their issuers’ conventional curve.
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High grade borrowers were thin on the ground in the US market this week as volatility roiled equities and earnings blackouts loomed large.
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Investors flocked to Quebec’s first dollar benchmark in nearly two years this week. Although the province had intended to issue $1bn, the scale of the demand enabled it to print its largest ever deal in the currency.
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The evolution of the green bond market took another big step forward this week as two of Europe’s biggest borrowers launched dollar benchmarks in green format for the first time — and another European agency prepared a second green bond in euros.
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Alexander Kiselevich, a managing director in corporate banking in Moscow, left Bank of America Merrill Lynch at the end of September.
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Korea Exchange Bank (KEB) priced the third US dollar tier two bond from the country on October 7, coming in only slightly wider than peer Hana Bank.
