BNP Paribas
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Mutual Energy, an energy infrastructure company headquartered in Belfast, has sold £200m ($256.98m) of private placement notes in its first private debt outing. -
BNP Paribas has hired a new banker for its Asia syndicate team in Hong Kong.
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South Korean internet provider SK Broadband Co. hit the dollar bond market on Monday, taking advantage of the stable backdrop for a $300m trade.
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The lending arm of Ford’s China operation took advantage of bullish sentiments in the onshore market on August 2, sealing a Rmb4.5bn ($662.3m) securitization. Bankers say Ford managed to price below Nissan, which offered a similar ABS recently, thanks to a major policy announcement that emerged last week.
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Pascal Fischer has started his new post of head of global markets in Asia-Pacific at BNP Paribas, based in Hong Kong.
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Shangde Qizhi Education Group has set the ball rolling for a Hong Kong IPO, having filed a draft prospectus with the city’s bourse on Thursday.
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Mainland telecommunications infrastructure giant China Tower raised HK$54.3bn ($6.9bn) this week after getting its mammoth float across the line at the bottom of guidance.
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India’s HDFC Bank has raised $2.22bn through a qualified institutional placement and a concurrent sale of American Depository Shares (ADS).
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State-owned China National Building Material has kicked off its debut syndication through three bookrunners, seeking $160m from the fundraising.
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French laboratory testing company Eurofins Scientific and Italian tyre company Pirelli have closed Schuldscheine totalling more than €1bn in the past week.
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Société du Grand Paris, a French agency that plans to sell its debut bond issue later this year, has launched the first ever Green Euro Medium Term Note programme — a move that bankers and experts said could bring a range of benefits to the issuer and the wider SRI market.
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Prologis, the US warehouses Reit, found a very warm reception to its first euro benchmark issue since 2015 this week, leading bankers to surmise that other reverse Yankee issuers might follow it to the euro market.
