BNP Paribas
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Agile Group Holdings snapped up $400m from a tap on Thursday, with investors’ response sending a strong signal to the high yield market, according to bankers. -
Concerns from some fund managers about the terms of Altice’s new €2.5bn-equivalent bond were swamped by orders from other investors eager to bag single-B paper with a big coupon from a core high yield issuer. After a series of successful investor push-backs on deal terms, the debt laden French telecom proved this week that borrowers still can walk away with loose covenants, writes Victor Jimenez.
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The third week of July finally saw the summer lull kick in, with SSA issuance volumes at less than half of what was sold last week. But Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten still managed to snatch up a successful tap, and SSA bankers and issuers reckoned the market still bodes well for new issues.
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Electricity network operator Terna has sold the first investment grade corporate bond from an Italian issuer since the formation of the country’s new government and was rewarded with an order book that was more than 5.5 times subscribed, demonstrating an investor base that is open to Italy risk once more. Nigel Owen reports.
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Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) raised $600m with a green bond on Wednesday, offering no new issue premium to an investor base desperate for environmentally friendly assets.
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Birla Carbon has closed a $1.2bn multi-tranche loan after attracting six participants during senior syndication, according to a banker close to the situation.
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Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten on Tuesday achieved big size and a decent price with a €750m tap of a 10 year bond whose original issue had underwhelmed — leading one SSA banker to reference Hollywood by calling the reopening the “Shawshank Redemption”.
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Power generation group Contour was in the euro high yield market this week with a two tranche double-B bond refinancing, with the firm looking to join a raft of other issuers that have refinanced despite spreads leaking wider this year.
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A holding company owned by Dubai’s Oger Telecom has come to an agreement with all of its lending banks to give control of Turk Telekom to creditors, after months of restructuring talks on a $4.75bn loan.
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French telecoms firm Altice called on the high yield bond and leveraged loan markets with a €4bn cross-border refinancing deal this week, hoping that improved quarterly results would help investors shake off the apprehension they showed for the credit in March.
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Société d’Infrastructure Gazières, a holding company jointly owned by CNP Assurances and Caisse des Dépôts whose sole asset is a 24.91% minority stake in natural gas network GRTgaz, has issued a €586.4m Euro PP bond.
