Barclays
-
The European high yield market on Monday fired its opening shot of 2017 with a deal from TalkTalk. The UK telecoms provider is seeking £300m of five year non-call two senior unsecured notes. -
Lloyds Bank tapped the covered bond market for a three year floating rate deal on Monday, the fourth year in a row that it has issued the instrument in early January.
-
The dollar covered bond market is in good shape, and it seems likely that issuers will want to follow the success of Bank of Montreal which last Wednesday issued the first benchmark of the year at a cheaper cost and in larger size than its previous deal issued six month ago.
-
The UK Debt Management Office has picked the maturity and timing for a scheduled bond sale later this month. Elsewhere in sterling, a pair of issuers added deals to a bumper opening week that fell just short of a record.
-
It’s a back-to-the-future new year for Barclays as it forges ahead with its strategic repositioning — the latest moves in what feel like decades-long twists and turns into and out of Africa and investment banking.
-
KommuneKredit will be first out the blocks in a major currency for the second week running this coming Monday, after mandating banks for a new benchmark on Friday.
-
-
Indiabulls Housing Finance has returned to the loans market for an up to $150m facility. The deal is denominated in yen and dollars, and follows a $200m borrowing sealed late last year.
-
Hopes that spiralling US Treasury yields could lead to a healthy year for 10 year dollar benchmarks from SSA borrowers took a beating this week when the Asian Development Bank bellyflopped with its own attempted entry. Craig McGlashan reports.
-
-
Guarantor: Financial Market Stabilisation Fund of the Federal Republic of Germany
-
The potential volume of green bond issues is set to reach the very top of what is possible in the bond market, as the French sovereign this week announced the start of a roadshow for its debut green bond later this month.
