Banks
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Switzerland’s MET Group has signed €950m of revolving credit facilities. The acquisition-hungry energy marketing company is looking to raise more syndicated financing outside its European home base before the summer.
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Société Générale and Nykredit Realkredit took advantage of stable market conditions to raise non-preferred senior debt on Monday, as analysts began predicting a steady grind tighter over the next few weeks.
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The Republic of Chile has mandated banks to arrange its second euro green bond offering, as well as launching a tender offer of outstanding euro debt.
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Marco Acaia has joined Nomura as a managing director in the consumer and retail coverage team.
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Qatar Islamic Bank this week printed the Gulf region’s first Formosa sukuk, as issuers there stepped up their use of increasingly attractive Asian debt markets.
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Elite Commercial Real Estate Investment Trust has opened books for an IPO that could raise up to £130.7m ($169.7m), according to a source familiar with the matter.
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Chinese co-living platform Phoenix Tree priced its US listing below the initial marketed range and reduced the size of its IPO, raising $129.6m. Its stock had a volatile start to trading last Friday.
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European real estate company CPI Property Group turned to investors in the Lion City last Friday for its first Singapore dollar bond.
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Sun Hung Kai Properties took advantage of a favourable market backdrop and solid aftermarket performance of its latest dollar bond to return with a tap just four days after the original transaction was priced.
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A major shareholder in SLM Solutions Group, the German maker of 3D printers, sold a chunk of his stake in the company, via an accelerated bookbuild on Thursday.
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Nationwide Building Society launched a three year preferred senior bond in sterling on Friday, with the trade’s success coming as 'no surprise' amid a favourable backdrop in the currency.
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Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW) is set to become the first issuer of green non-preferred senior paper in the sterling bond market, as well as the first financial institution to include sustainability ratings in a new deal mandate.