Barclays
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Short dated sterling paper was the only visible supply in senior on Tuesday, with Credit Suisse and Dexia Crédit Local both hitting the market. Dexia was planning to sell a three year fixed rate bond, while CS opted for a two year floater.
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Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) is looking to make its sixth dollar denominated public issue of the year. And as with its blowout $3bn deal from January, the Japanese bank is seeking a four tranche bond. -
Kookmin Bank priced its second syndicated dollar bond of the year on Monday, this time opting for a fixed rate deal to target a fresh pool of investors.
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More than half a decade after the crisis, one bank has seen fit to make sure its compliance professionals actually know what compliance is and how to be a professional at it.
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IL&FS Transportation Networks (ITNL) will be meeting investors for what could be the first offshore renminbi bond from an Indian borrower in nearly a year.
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Kookmin Bank opened books for its second dollar deal this year on Monday. The three year bond comes as Korean borrowers issued a record volume of G3 debt during the first half of 2014.
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Portugal shrugged off a domestic bank crisis this week to harness international appetite for eurozone periphery debt with its first syndication after exiting its bail-out in May. Also the sovereign’s first dollar offering since 2010, the deal was several times oversubscribed despite Banco Espirito Santo suffering volatility in equity and bond markets before the sale.
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German industrial packaging group Mauser this week priced the tranches of its $1.6bn acquisition loan at the tight end of guidance and inside it, while keeping covenant-lite terms on all tranches but one.
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Korea National Oil Corp (KNOC) on Thursday tapped its 2019 bonds and added a new 10 year, bringing a total of $800m of new funding. And while there had been talk of the borrower following the Republic of Korea to the euro market, the pricing opportunity was not right.
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A €300m bond from US retailer Jarden Corp could price wider than expected because of an oversupply of high yield transactions over the past 10 days, a lead banker has told GlobalCapital.
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Barclays has appointed Mitul Kotecha to lead its Asia Pacific FX strategy team in what is a new position for the bank. He relocates from Hong Kong to Singapore and he started his job last week.
