Banks
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ANZ New Zealand has been informed by its regulator that it can no longer use its own internal models to calculate operational risk, leading to a 60% jump in its capital requirements in this field. -
AAA Oils and Fats (AAAOF), a trading subsidiary of palm oil processor and distributor Apical Group, is seeking to amend and extend the revolving credit facility tranche of a $800m borrowing from 2017.
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Thursday’s corporate bond new issue action in Europe confirmed the picture presented on Wednesday: that investors were determined not to let macroeconomic issues bother them, and were piling into new issues. The day was less blemished than the previous one had been by volatility, enabling issuers to get some very tight spreads.
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Vesteda, the Dutch housing company, proved there was plenty of hunger for green bonds on Thursday, when its first issue of the kind, a €500m no-grow eight year, hoovered up orders to finish six times oversubscribed.
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KKR, the US private equity firm, issued its first euro bond on a crowded day on Wednesday, competing with four other issuers, but that did not stop it achieving attractive execution.
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Two issuance platforms are approaching readiness: one in bonds, one in loans. Both promise time and cost savings by replacing multiple systems with a single platform for issuers, dealers and investors, and automating documentation and payments.
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Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), the US financial software company, honoured Europe’s bond markets this week with the lion’s share of the debt financing for its takeover of Worldpay, the payments group that began as part of Royal Bank of Scotland, for an enterprise value of $43bn.
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The dollar corporate bond market showed its resilience this week as issuance rebounded, despite the US-China trade turmoil. “Trump, Trump, Trump,” was how one syndicate manager explained the reasons for the return of volatility as high grade credit markets see-sawed with the President’s mood swings.
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HSBC led a surge in dollar bond supply as high-grade banks sprang back into issuance mode after a two-week layoff.
