Barclays

Bank of New Zealand (BNZ) gave investors the chance to put some euros into a senior bond on Friday and was well subscribed for its efforts.

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The buyout loan backing Advent’s acquisition of Evonik’s methacrylates business has struggled in the first round of syndication, with leads increasing the OID and targeting the wide end of guidance.

Barclays Capital was looking to issue an additional tier one bond denominated in sterling on Thursday. The deal came after Banque Fédérative du Crédit Mutuel issued a tier two instrument on Wednesday. Both took advantage of an upswing in market conditions for subordinated debt.

The US’s Occidental Petroleum has completed an $8.8bn loan and is raising a $13bn bridge to back its $57bn purchase of Anadarko Petroleum, with a bevy of lenders getting in on the action.

Derwent London, the UK commercial property developer, has shrugged off Brexit-related concerns about the outlook for the London real estate market to place a £175m convertible bond due in 2025 to finance a buyback of an older note due next month.

Chinese online tutoring company GSX Techedu has raised $207.9m after pricing its US listing at the mid-point of guidance, according to a source familiar with the matter.

Investors proved their appetite for corporate bonds this week by gobbling €5bn of them on a single day, as Publicis Groupe and BMW issued jumbo deals on a second consecutive day of heavy issuance in Europe.

Iceland plans to defrost its euro curve with a new syndicated issue, its first since December 2017.

Barclays has named Fater Belbachir as its new global head of equities, to lead its equities business across cash and derivatives, as well as its prime and syndicate segments.

Investors are calculating the value of Airtel Africa, the African subsidiary of Indian telecoms conglomerate Bharti Airtel, as it is going ahead with a floatation on the London Stock Exchange (LSE).

Volkswagen has rebooted the IPO of Traton, its trucks division, after the deal was delayed in March due to volatility in equity markets caused by the ongoing trade tensions between the US and China.