Banks

Berry Global, the US plastic packaging maker, will raise bonds to finance its purchase of UK plastics maker RPC Group, it said on Wednesday. The debt raising will feature $3bn of senior secured notes in two tranches. This marks the end of leveraged finance bankers' hopes that the auction of RPC would deliver substantial new money supply to the European market.

Citi has appointed Marc Luet to be country officer for Australia and head of the bank's Australia and New Zealand cluster.

Dubai Aerospace Enterprise has made a quick offshore loan comeback, aiming to raise $300m.

Chinese issuers kept up their bond issuances on Wednesday, despite having to contend with the backdrop of the US-China trade war. Three borrowers raised a combined $840m, proving that investors are still buying a range of credits.

The Export-Import Bank of Thailand played to investors’ need for diversity on Wednesday, marketing a $300m-capped transaction at a very tight rate.

Chile raised around $1.5bn-equivalent of new peso debt on Wednesday in its fourth Euroclearable local currency deal.

Crédit Agricole highlighted euro DCM activity as a successful area in its first quarter results, with the league table showing it mixed with the big banks here.

Investors proved they were able to digest KfW's largest green bond yet on Tuesday. Deals in the billions of euros are set to become the norm for the Issuer as it looks to size its green trades closer to its conventional benchmarks.

Nordic Investment Bank funding officials considered printing its $1bn bond this week inside its curve before deciding against the ruse in order to support secondary trading, with Japan Bank of International Co-operation next in line to test the vast demand for five year dollar bonds.

Erste Group priced its inaugural non-preferred senior bond on Wednesday, meeting demand of more than more than four times the deal's €500m size.

Switzerland’s Transocean has amended its bank revolving credit facility to increase the size to $1.36bn, with the fallen angel offshore contract drilling services provider keeping an additional $140m in the wings on the undrawn facility.

LBBW's second green senior bond, issued on Wednesda,y was comfortably oversubscribed and had many more orders than its debut deal, even though the market backdrop was more volatile this time round. At the same time Westpac New Zealand mandated leads for a roadshow ahead of its own debut green senior bond.