Banks
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Valour Real Estate and Quadreal Property, a UK and Canadian property joint venture, has signed €212m-equivalent of loans, with real estate companies making up some of the biggest borrowers in Europe so far this year. -
G.Network Communications, the London-centric broadband provider, has signed loans totalling £229m, with the company planning a £1bn investment programme into the UK capital.
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Three of the most active banks in financing oil exports from the Ecuadorian Amazon — an environmentally destructive industry with a long track record of trampling on indigenous people’s rights — have agreed to cease important parts of their financial support, after pressure from NGOs and a devastating oil spill in 2020.
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Chinese video-sharing platform Kuaishou Technology, a rival to TikTok parent ByteDance, has started testing investor appetite for Hong Kong's largest IPO in over two years as it seeks HK$42bn ($5.42bn).
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China's Avic International Holding Corp had to offer investors a premium for its latest dollar bond, to compensate them for the risk associated with its inclusion on a US sanctions list.
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Hong-Kong-headquartered bank SC Lowy has hired Jonathan Graber for its trading team in London.
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UK Export Finance, the UK's export credit agency, has provided its largest ever overseas infrastructure guarantee to support the construction of two new monorails in Egypt. JP Morgan is leading a group of commercial lenders in providing the funding.
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Four US global banking titans roared out of earnings blackout to raise more than $20bn of debt this week, issuing deals either side of president Joe Biden’s inauguration.
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Credit Suisse has made seven appointments within its sustainability strategy, advisory and finance (SSAF) unit:. Five are external hires while two come from its own investment bank.
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DZ Hyp is preparing to print its first covered bond of the year. The deal could be launched as soon as Monday, which would allow the German lender to get its business done ahead of an expected EU deal for the Support to Mitigate Unemployment Risks in an Emergency (SURE) programme.
