Barclays
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National Australia Bank printed a €750m seven year covered bond on Monday. But the deal didn’t fly off the shelf, even though it offered a substantial premium to other Australian covered bonds. The lack of European Central Bank repo eligibility and slackening demand in the seven year area was blamed.
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Amadeus, the Spanish company that provides IT systems to the air travel industry, reaped the rewards of five weeks of patience on Tuesday as its €500m six year no-grow bond brought in an order book of over €4.75bn.
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WPP, the UK advertising firm, attracted more than €3bn of orders for its four year benchmark bond on Tuesday as investors showed they were willing to turn on the taps for the right deal.
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Sky, the UK satellite and cable broadcasting group, brought a 10 year euro benchmark bond on Monday, pushing out for a longer maturity after a week when many issuers stayed with intermediate tenors.
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Simon Property Group, the US property company that is the world’s largest real estate investment trust, launched a benchmark seven year euro bond on Monday , its first issue in the currency for over two years.
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Anheuser-Busch InBev, the Belgian-Brazilian brewer, mandated a group of 21 banks to provide its $75bn loan facility, but there was no coordinator as AB InBev took an active role in arranging the transaction. -
Perform Group, the UK digital sports media firm, sold £175m of secured notes on Wednesday, after cutting down the offering from £200m as investors proved cautious.
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Banco Popular Español became the first peripheral bank to launch senior debt in just under two months on Thursday, paying around 20bp of new issue concession to tap its outstanding February 2020 bonds.
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South African media group Naspers has finished amending and extending a $2.25bn five year loan and has added another $250m to the deal size, taking it to $2.5bn.
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Alpha Bank has launched on November 11 a share sale to raise €1.66bn, as part of its €2.74bn capital strengthening plan, to address capital weakness discovered in recent EU stress tests.
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Anheuser-Busch InBev, the Belgian-Brazilian brewer, submitted a final recommended offer for SABMiller on Wednesday, having raised a record $75bn loan to support the transaction.
