Barclays
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One of the busiest days ever in the public sector dollar market ended with five issuers sitting on deals printed at the top end of their size targets and with pricing tightened from initial thoughts. Another borrower is already out for Thursday business and bankers predict that conditions are so “incredible” that deal flow will stay healthy into next week — no matter what policy statements incoming US president Donald Trump makes at his inauguration on Friday. -
UK cable and mobile operator Virgin Media on Wednesday plugged its refinancing bond offering into the sterling market on Wednesday, raising total potential sterling high yield bond sales to near £1.7bn so far this year.
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China Development Bank priced a mammoth five tranche deal Tuesday, raising more than $4bn across three dollar and two euro tranches, making it the first Chinese name to issue a euro deal this year.
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Italy is set to kick off its syndicated programme for the year with a September 2033 euro benchmark, as the sovereign brushed off a downgrade from DBRS late last week.
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A quartet of public sector borrowers are set to cram into the front end of the dollar curve on Wednesday, as bankers outlined a triple whammy of factors driving the squeeze.
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Belgium hit a landmark on Tuesday, printing its biggest deal ever with a 10 year benchmark. Scoring a more modest €1bn, African Development Bank's second ever euro syndication also met with a warm reception.
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London-headquartered Vedanta Resources is pursuing a new 5.5 year dollar transaction after more than three years out of the international market,. The new deal is taking place alongside a tender offer for two of the company’s existing notes.
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China Development Bank Corp is kicking off the year with a bang, launching a euro/dollar dual currency bond across five tranches Tuesday morning.
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Micro Focus, a UK software firm, is poised to offer up $1bn-equivalent in euros to the European leveraged loan market as it looks to close its reverse merger with Hewlett Packard’s software business.
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China Development Bank Corp has turned its sights on adollar-euro transaction to start its 2017 debt issuance.
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The acceleration of equity block trading in Europe continued on Thursday evening, when NLFI, the organisation that manages investments for the Dutch government, launched the sale of a 13.6% stake in ASR Nederland, the insurer nationalised during the financial crisis.
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