Barclays
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T-Mobile US has lined up $38bn of fully committed loans to finance its $26bn purchase of US telecommunications company Sprint. -
Sweeping US tax code reforms could have a big impact on banks with intermediate holding companies in the US, perhaps forcing them to fund from the IHCs directly, rather than from their parent companies.
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A flattening and rising US Treasury yield curve may be sparking concerns of a slowdown for the US economy but it is having the opposite effect on the short end of the dollar market for public sector borrowers, writes Craig McGlashan.
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Phoenix Community Housing, a non-profit housing association from London, has raised £60m of private debt using delayed draw.
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Avast, the Czech cyber security company, has set the terms of its London IPO, valuing it at £3.2bn at the top of the range.
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More than €3.5bn of high yield bond deals in euros, sterling and dollars were scheduled to close this week. Although some bankers described the pipeline as “crowded”, they expected market digestion to be ‘healthy’ ahead of quieter times.
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Kommunalbanken has circulated initial price thoughts of 5bp area over mid-swaps for a no-grow $1bn three year benchmark, a level that bankers away from the trade said was 'well priced'.
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Capita, the UK outsourcing company, launched its £701m ($976.13m) rights issue before the market opened on Monday, in a bid to turn its fortunes around and de-lever its balance sheet.
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Jes Staley, chief executive of Barclays, is no longer under investigation by UK authorities for his attempts to identify a whistleblower at the bank, and he will keep his job at the head of the firm, removing another regulatory uncertainty.
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UK pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline has closed syndication on $13bn-equivalent of bridge loans to finance its purchase of Novartis’s stake in the two firms' consumer healthcare joint venture.
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