Barclays
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Volkswagen International Finance “aggressively” priced through its secondary curve when it issued a €500m medium term note on Tuesday. -
Sub-investment grade Italian lenders Banco BPM and Illimity Bank were well-supported in the euro bond market on Thursday, as investors showed they were more than happy to look at riskier names in their search for yield.
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GardaWorld, the Canadian security company, made its final pitch for larger UK rival G4S on Wednesday, raising the offer to £3.68bn in a deal that will land the lenders up to £180m in fees.
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IWG, the London-listed operator of serviced offices and co-working spaces, has issued a £350m convertible bond as it prepares to take advantage of opportunities as the UK economy reopens after lockdown.
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Kommunalbanken, the financing agency for Norwegian municipalities, and L–Bank, the development bank for the State of Baden–Württemberg, built well covered order books as they brought what will likely be the SSA market’s final dollar benchmark deals of 2020.
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The UK’s SSE Renewables and Norway’s Equinor, two energy companies, have signed what lenders say is the largest ever offshore wind project financing, a £5.5bn package for a wind farm off the UK coast.
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Kommunalbanken and L-Bank will each bring a dollar benchmark to the market on Tuesday, in what could be the final public SSA deals in the currency this year.
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Electrocomponents, a UK electrical and industrial supplies company, has signed a £300m revolving credit facility, increasing the size of the facility being replaced as access to liquidity remains many companies' key consideration.
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French hotels group Accor this week became the latest issuer to tap the convertible bond market for financing in the wake of the rally in value stocks following positive Covid vaccine news in early November.
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CPI Property, the Frankfurt listed property owner, has signed a new €700m revolving credit facility, bumping up the size of its main bank line as lenders say liquidity is still a focus for corporates.
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Sunac China Holdings tapped two of its dollar bonds on Thursday, using up the $320m left of its offshore issuance quota.
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