Barclays
-
Ryanair left parts of the corporate bond market ‘gobsmacked’ on Tuesday, as the first benchmark-sized new issue from an airline since lockdowns from Covid-19 battered the sector managed to reprice the issuer’s curve. -
Barclays has appointed Todd Sandoz and Paul Leech as permanent co-heads of global equities.
-
Commerzbank did not pay a premium to launch its new additional tier one (AT1) this week, as it found strong demand at the long end of the curve. The bank was returning to the market just three months after its last deal in the format.
-
Ryanair, the Irish budget airline, is marketing the first benchmark sized euro deal from a European airline since the coronavirus pandemic began, with the issuer hoping to build on last week’s wooing of equity investors for a €400m placement.
-
Banco BPM opened books for a new tier two on Monday, as it looked to take advantage of supply and demand dynamics in a quieter September than usual.
-
Wayne Hiley has retired from his position of head of UK debt structuring in Barclays’ corporate banking division.
-
-
-
Senior deals from Banco de Sabadell and Mediobanca underlined the pricing benefits of printing in green formats this week, with both coming inside conventional curves. Other issuers could be tempted to follow.
-
Ex-Barclays banker joins Finsbury to develop equity advisory — Laubjerg hired for natural resources at HSBC — Rousseau leaves Deutsche and joins Citi
-
Chinese property developers China South City Holdings and Kaisa Group Holdings offered generous premiums for their bond outings this week in a bid to ensure strong aftermarket performance.
-
The top investment banks will achieve substantially higher returns on equity this year, predicts analytics firm Coalition, after revenues in fixed income, currencies and commodities (FICC) soared in the first half of the year.
