Barclays
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Barclays is on the verge of signing up for four more years of its partnership with the Unreasonable Group, a company that supports high-achieving entrepreneurs leading businesses that solve social or environmental problems. -
UK REIT Tritax Big Box has signed a £250m short term facility, as the large logistics warehouse investor looks to make acquisitions.
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Jefferies' drive to build its EMEA emerging markets business took another step forward this week, with the hiring of two research analysts, supporting a trading business that's been put together over the past two years. The US bank is rumoured to have its eyes on the primary markets next.
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Nep Group, a US producer of broadcast programmes, gave price talk below 400bp for all first lien loans in the financing for its buyout by Carlyle, a further sign that margins have tightened in the leveraged loan market.
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Barclays had hired an equity capital markets banker from Goldman Sachs to expand its corporate broking team.
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The first two major IPOs of the autumn, Funding Circle and SIG Combibloc, have both stayed above water in trading.
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US healthcare company Abbott Laboratories debuted in the European corporate bond market on Monday, selling a €3.42bn triple-tranche deal. The proceeds of the jumbo deal were to repay the issuer’s outstanding deals in dollars.
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Corporate dollar bond issuance ended a bumper month with a whimper as borrowers fought shy either side of the Fed’s September meeting.
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French electricity utility EDF continued a busy September with the first hybrid corporate bond deal in the euro market for more than two months on Tuesday. It also sold a new senior trade in euros, following a $3.75bn triple tranche deal in the US the previous week.
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The UK’s Helical has signed a £150m deal from UK banks, bringing the property developer’s revolving credit lines into one facility.
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French certification agency Bureau Veritas had its credentials stamped by investors on Thursday when it sold its third deal in three years. The unrated issuer received €1bn of demand for its €500m long six year deal.
