BNP Paribas
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The auction to determine the credit default swap payouts over the safeguard proceedings of Rallye was held on Thursday, and gave protection buyers an 87.5% payout. The supermarket holding company’s bonds had slid roughly five points in the week before, to trade at around 15 ahead of the auction, but settlement interest was all on one side, pushing the final price to 12.5.
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Volkswagen has closed the books on the long-awaited spin-off of its truck division, Traton, at €27 a share, the bottom of the price range. It was a positive result for the company, according to sources speaking to GlobalCapital.
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BNP Paribas Cardif raised Rp16.88bn ($243.81m) after hiving off a 2.5% stake in SBI Life Insurance.
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Luxembourg’s SES has refinanced its revolving credit facility, trimming at the margin of the €1.2bn deal as banks piled into the satellite operator’s transaction.
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Voltalia, the French renewable power producer, has launched a €376m rights issue to finance increased capacity, and has won a new investor in the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
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Motability Operations Group, the UK company that operates the UK government's scheme to provide cars for the disabled, printed a £1.438bn-equivalent euro and sterling three tranche bond on Wednesday, in a busy day that also brought a €1bn two part issue from OMV, the Austrian oil and gas company.
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Investment firms BlackRock and KKR have signed a $3.275bn loan to support a pipeline partnership with the United Arab Emirate’s state-owned oil company, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc), according to bankers. The agreement sparked interest among market participants, who expect an increase in public-private partnerships in the Middle East energy industry, some of which are likely to be financed through traditional capital markets. Mariam Meskin reports.
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South Korea’s Kookmin Bank has sold its maiden dollar-denominated Basel III compliant additional tier one bond, opting for a sustainability label to entice investors.
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Cellnex Telecom, the highly acquisitive Spanish wireless telecommunications company, has issued a €850m convertible bond due in July 2028 to fund its €11bn pipeline of investment opportunities in the European telecom towers market.
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Investors poured into Agence Francaise de Developpement (AFD)’s 10 year euro benchmark on Tuesday, allowing the French agency to issue its largest ever trade in the currency.
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Prologis European Logistics Reit, the A3/A- rated warehouse real estate investment trust, returned with its second green bond on Tuesday, having issued its first in March 2018.
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France’s Korian has amended and extended its bank facility, with the nursing home operator cutting the size to €1bn and a chunky wedge off the margin.