Banks
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Chinese conglomerate Fosun International has cut pricing on a new $560m-equivalent multi-currency loan, as it counts on banks’ hunger to lend amid slow deal flow to push its transaction past the finish line. -
Oesterreichische Kontrollbank (OeKB) hit the market on Tuesday for a five year dollar benchmark, raising $1.5bn despite pricing coming through the issuer’s secondary curve.
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Christian Keller has become Citigroup's new head of markets and securities services for Germany and Austria.
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The European Union wrapped up its first bond of 2021 under the Support to Mitigate Unemployment Risks in an Emergency (SURE) funding programme in style with a quick execution and another impressively sized order book.
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UBS, the first major European investment bank to report fourth quarter results, smashed through expectations in global banking, with that part of its business benefiting from equity capital markets revenue more than doubling year-on-year.
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La Banque Postale (LBP) sold €500m of tier two paper this week, marking the normally rare issuer’s second sale in the format in just over three months.
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The Republic of Slovenia is set to sell its longest bond ever on Tuesday, picking banks for a 60 year euro benchmark — a 36 year extension of its curve.
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BNP Paribas is set to redeem one of its legacy tier one bonds in full this quarter, as more banks follow recent guidance from the European Banking Authority and clear out old capital instruments.
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Flex, the US-Singapore electronic component maker, has signed a $2bn revolving credit facility, in what leads are describing as the first ESG-linked syndicated revolving credit facility for the US technology sector.
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BNP Paribas has hired veteran banker Rahul Mundra to its loan syndication team in India.
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Solid demand from investors for Woori Bank's sustainable bond on Monday allowed the South Korean borrower to price its $550m deal at an ultra-tight spread.
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Chinese healthcare duo MicroPort CardioFlow Medtech Corp and Suzhou Basecare Medical Corp have kicked off their Hong Kong IPOs after a week of pre-marketing.
