Banks

Mercuria Energy Group bagged a bigger-than-expected $1.35bn from its latest annual revolver in Asia, after 36 banks joined the deal.

Shanghai Junshi Biosciences has kicked off pre-deal investor education for its Hong Kong listing.

Jonathan Gold, the former co-head of EMEA FIG DCM at Deutsche Bank, has resurfaced as a partner in Deloitte’s UK corporate finance advisory team, leading banking and capital markets origination and working closely with the insurance team.

Russia is doing it again — for the second time this year it has picked yet another politically unpalatable week to print a sovereign bond. It seems to be sticking a middle finger up to the west as it rolls around in cash and shows off the access the country has to capital markets. But if that was the motivation behind this issue, it has not accomplished its goals.

The African Development Bank and Nederlandse Waterschapsbank were able to sell a pair of oversubscribed no-grow $500m socially responsible deals on Tuesday, despite tougher market conditions as the end of the year approaches.

Kommuninvest has expanded its group of market makers for its Swedish benchmark programme, as the agency forecast a lower funding target for next year than 2018.

Private equity firms Bain Capital and Cinven are financing their purchase of a further 28.3% stake in Stada Arzneimittel, the German pharmaceutical group, in the euro leveraged finance markets this week, and are having to contend with investors who are in a risk-averse mood.

French car parts supplier Faurecia has launched a Schuldschein expected to reach a size around €400m to €500m, as attractive euro and dollar spread ranges are planted to attract a wide group of lenders.

The African Development Bank issued the first green bond linked to the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (Sofr) on Tuesday. The European Investment Bank will look to extend the Sofr floating rate note curve on Wednesday with an October 2021 issue that will use a different coupon formula to the previous Sofr trades.

Electricité de France has extended and amended its €4bn revolving credit facility to link it to environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards, as green-centric loans continue to gain traction among borrowers.

General Holding Corporation (Senaat) — one of the United Arab Emirate’s largest industrial investment holding companies — printed a $300m seven year sukuk on Tuesday after releasing exceptionally wide guidance and slamming it tighter.

UK listed fund GCP Infrastructure has increased the size of its revolving credit facilities to £165m, as the infrastructure investment company continues to draw heavily on its bank lending lines.