Barclays

As Barclays’ head of leveraged capital markets leaves, the bank has engaged in a hiring effort to keep its leverage finance business “on top of the game”, sources told GlobalCapital.

India’s Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) has mandated banks for a green dollar bond, a first for the company.

Property names China Jinmao Holdings Group and Shimao Property Holdings, along with India’s Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone, launched new dollar deals on Thursday.

Atlas Mara, the London-listed company co-founded by Bob Diamond that invests in African financial services, announced a $200m equity capital raising on Wednesday, most of which will be taken up by Fairfax Africa Holdings Corp.

An overnight share sale in Scout24, the Berlin-based digital classified advertising group, was priced at a 6% discount on Tuesday, raising €331.7m for the vendors.

Speaking at Euromoney’s Global Borrowers conference on Tuesday, a panel of bank issuers said that investors had come to grips with the transformation of the senior asset class for the minimum requirement for own funds and eligible liabilities (MREL). The future of subordinated debt, meanwhile, remains in flux.

Gome Electrical Appliances Holdings priced a tap on Tuesday, adding $100m to the original $400m notes on the back of 6x demand. Investors’ eagerness for paper allowed the issuer to price inside both its existing notes and secondary.

India’s Bank of Baroda met investors this week on a non-deal roadshow in Europe and Asia.

Deutsche Telekom and a group of shareholders in Scout24, the digital classified advertising group, are in the market this evening to sell a possible €341.4m stake.

The charging of four Barclays executives and the group itself on Tuesday after a UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) investigation might, at last, satisfy the public desire to see bankers banged up. But it’s hard to see what else it will achieve.

Coentreprise de Transport d’Electricité made a statement with its inaugural bond issue on Tuesday. The holding company for the French power grid company achieved its aim of raising €2.92bn in three tranches, achieving greater size with the longer bonds.

British Telecommunications brought its second triple tranche euro bond transaction in 16 months on Tuesday. The orderbooks were heavily oversubscribed, with demand skewed toward the longest tranche.