Barclays
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Private equity firm Blackstone is raising $1.1bn to support its purchase of a stake in Indian IT company Mphasis. The deal is set to be the largest leveraged buyout loan in the country — and comes with a group of 13 bookrunners at the top. Pan Yue reports. -
Toyota Motor Finance Netherlands, the Dutch arm of the Japanese car company’s credit division, on Monday became the latest issuer to hit the red hot sterling bond market, parking a chunky single tranche trade in the currency.
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Barclays has hired a senior trader from JP Morgan in New York to replace Naseer Al-Khudairi as head of electronic trading and digital strategy for its markets division.
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The European Union mandated banks on Monday for a dual tranche transaction comprising bonds for its Next Generation EU (NGEU), European Financial Stabilisation (EFSM) and Macro-Financial Assistance (MFA) programmes.
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Shares in Wise, the UK fintech group, had traded up more than 22% by Friday afternoon compared to the price at which it completed the first ever direct listing by a technology unicorn on the London Stock Exchange on Wednesday. Equity bankers hailed the transaction as an alternative route to going public when the IPO market is difficult but the list of companies that could do such a deal is short, writes Aidan Gregory.
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Realty Income Corp, the US real estate investor, made its debut in the green bond market on Thursday with a sterling deal, with the issuer pricing its first foray into the structure inside its own curve.
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Mike Lamb, a senior investment banker covering the insurance sector, has left Barclays to join Citi in a chairman role in London.
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China Modern Dairy Holdings, a milk producer, has raised $500m from its first international bond.
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Chinese toll road operator Zhejiang Expressway has sold its inaugural dollar bond, raising $470m.
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Sterling investors had their choice of ultra-long dated corporate bonds on Wednesday, as charitable foundation the Wellcome Trust and Flagship Housing Group printed 50 and 40 year paper, respectively.
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A trio of green labelled debuts attracted “slim” demand on Wednesday, as the three senior deals had to compete with a flurry of other trades for a slice of the shrinking pre-summer investor pool.
