Barclays
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Busy Bee, the UK nursery and early education provider for under-fives, held a bank meeting on Wednesday to market its £210m term loan ‘B’. -
While the public sector bond market in euros faces uncertainty, dollars is providing borrowers with a haven for issuance.
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Leveraged loan supply is set to chug along at low levels through the second quarter, yet despite such paucity of product buyside, discipline is holding firm.
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Klöckner Pentaplast, the German plastic film maker, has accelerated syndication on a €831m-equivalent loan in euros and dollars, designed to refinance debt and pay its shareholders a dividend.
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Investors were eager to buy German media company Bertelsmann’s €1.25bn debut hybrid bond on Thursday, and it achieved tight pricing.
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Morocco’s sole international corporate bond issuer returned for its second ever benchmark deal this week. The firm found size and tight pricing, printing a $1bn 10.5 year note well inside its secondary curve, said bankers on the deal.
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As Barclays and Deutsche prepare to face shareholders and report earnings in the coming weeks, both AJs face fundamental questions about their investment banking strategies that could reshape the global industry, writes David Rothnie.
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Wells Fargo launched its first sterling bond issue in over two years on Wednesday, showing the appeal of euro funding for US banks has faded since January.
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Moroccan fertilizer company OCP on Wednesday priced its second ever international bond deal just a few basis points back of its extrapolated curve, investors said.
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Kloeckner Pentaplast, the German plastic packaging company, on Wednesday began marketing €300m of unsecured notes with Kloeckner Pentaplast of America as issuer.
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German media company Bertelsmann finished its roadshow on Wednesday for its debut hybrid capital bond issue, and could price the deal as early as Thursday, according to a banker at one of the leads.
