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Trainline, the UK transport booking website, is preparing to launch an IPO on the London Stock Exchange. The deal is expected to value the company at around £1.5bn, according to a source close to matter. -
Indiabulls Housing Finance raised $350m in its debut dollar transaction on Tuesday.
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Wells Fargo has appointed John Langley as head of the corporate and investment bank for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Langley was previously head of global financing and risk solutions at Barclays.
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NRW.Bank has joined the list of dollar issuers this week, as the beneficial euro/dollar swap spread for euro funders and tight spread over Treasuries for dollar names proves an attractive lure.
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Tokyo Metropolitan Government and Kommuninvest released initial price thoughts on dollar trades on Monday, as investor demand in the currency remains high despite a run of deals last week.
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Tennet, the Dutch electricity transmission company and frequent green bond issuer, returned to the public bond market on Monday, after nearly a year away. It offered benchmark 11 and 20 year euro tranches.
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Thursday’s corporate bond new issue action in Europe confirmed the picture presented on Wednesday: that investors were determined not to let macroeconomic issues bother them, and were piling into new issues. The day was less blemished than the previous one had been by volatility, enabling issuers to get some very tight spreads.
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Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), the US financial software company, honoured Europe’s bond markets this week with the lion’s share of the debt financing for its takeover of Worldpay, the payments group that began as part of Royal Bank of Scotland, for an enterprise value of $43bn.
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KfW and the World Bank brought well received socially responsible bonds to the market this week that set new landmarks for the public sector borrowers.
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The EU has fined five big banks about €1.1bn in total after it found that some of their currency traders were involved in a foreign exchange cartel.
