Barclays
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Investors poured into Belgium’s debut 50 year benchmark vintage this week, with demand so strong that bankers are confident other issuers could soon sip liquidity from the ultra-long tenor.
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Türkiye Vakiflar Bankasi, or VakifBank, this week issued the first publicly syndicated Turkish covered bond, sending a powerful message to other Turkish banks and emerging market issuers that the investor base is wide open and eager for more EM names. -
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Belgium cracked open its 50 year bond vintage on Thursday with a deal that drew plenty of praise — while the level of demand even surprised some of those working on the trade.
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Barclays’ results held up better than those of its rivals, suggesting its transatlantic strategy is starting to work, writes David Rothnie.
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Kuoni, the Swiss travel company, and Novacap, the French pharmaceuticals and chemicals firm, set price talk on their loan packages following bank meetings on Thursday morning.
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University College London has signed the largest ever European Investment Bank loan to a higher education institution, it announced on Thursday.
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Abu Dhabi-owned Mubadala will wrap up its $2bn refinancing by the end of May and has achieved roughly the same margin as the loan it refinances, according to two sources.
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The recent run of good news on IPOs was broken on Wednesday when Telepizza made a dire debut on Bolsa Madrid after its €550m flotation, priced on Tuesday.
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Belgium is set to bring a private dabbling in ultra-long debt issuance into the public sphere, as it mandated on Wednesday for a debut 50 year euro benchmark a week after placing its second 100 year medium term note.
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Amadeus, the Spanish airline ticketing systems group, has signed a €500m revolving credit facility with a group of 12 banks, bringing in two new lenders as two dropped out.
