Barclays

Fadi Attia left Barclays this week where was on emerging market syndicate based in New York. He had been at Barclays for four years.

Reliance Industries tapped the dollar bond market for the second time in two weeks, raising $750m from a 30 year bond on February 3. Even though it was not by design, having the deal come at a later stage proved to be a masterstroke as Reliance was able to achieve some top notch pricing.

Chinese technology giant Tencent has decided to go ahead with a Reg S/144A transaction while it was in the middle of non-deal roadshow after it wasencouraged by strong feedback from US investors and the recent robust trading sessions.

The Export-Import Bank of India is continuing its tradition of tapping the dollar debt market once a year, opening books to a 5.5 year transaction on February 4.

Investors shrugged off concerns about contagion to other eurozone countries from Greece’s stand-off with its creditors on Tuesday, as they flooded into Ireland’s first ever 30 year syndication. Greek yields also screamed lower during the day after its finance minister hinted that the country’s new government might not pursue a debt write-down, while fellow bail-out recipient Cyprus returned to bill auctions.

SIG Combibloc has followed Altice's recent example by demonstrating the European market’s keen appetite for large leveraged M&A deals. SIG has tightened pricing on the loans in its €2.8bn deal and replaced some of the deal's bonds with loans.

German rented housing company Deutsche Annington has syndicated a €6.25bn bridge loan for its takeover of Luxembourg-based rival Gagfah. It is the largest real estate facility since 2008, according to Dealogic, but DA may only need a fraction of the facility.

Barclays is making a big push into the blocks business in Asia Pacific as it looks to capitalise on the revenue-generating opportunities available in that side of the ECM market. To that extent, the bank has appointed Jack Yee as its new head of blocks origination for the region, while bumping up Daniel Wosner to the position of head of equity syndicate.

Reliance Industries is back in the dollar debt market for the second time in two weeks, taking advantage of strong residual demand to launch a 30 year bond on February 3.

Chinese technology giant Tencent is set to talk with US investors on conference calls this week after picking three banks for a possible bond.

Eurozone sovereign issuers lined up to take advantage of the quantitative easing driven flattening of the euro curve on Monday, as one country the periphery mandated banks for a 30 year benchmark and another set most of its target range for an auction later this week at the long end of the curve.

Italy’s Servizi Assicurativi del Commericio Estero (SACE) made a last minute appearance in last week’s primary FIG market, pricing a €500m perpetual non-call 10 year subordinated bond at 25bp lower yield than initial price thoughts were set at, despite uncertain secondary markets.