BNP Paribas

Amadeus, the Spanish company that provides IT systems to the air travel industry, reaped the rewards of five weeks of patience on Tuesday as its €500m six year no-grow bond brought in an order book of over €4.75bn.

Vodafone has attracted a €2.5bn order book for a €750m five year bond, its first since negotiations over an asset swap with Liberty Global fell through.

Simon Property Group, the US property company that is the world’s largest real estate investment trust, launched a benchmark seven year euro bond on Monday , its first issue in the currency for over two years.

Debt bankers and analysts are expecting Saudi Arabia to tap the international markets for some $5bn in 2016, but BNP Paribas analysts warn that the sovereign entrance is going to hit the secondary levels of other Saudi borrowers.

Vodafone has attracted a €2.5bn order book for a €750m five year bond, its first since negotiations over an asset swap with Liberty Global fell through.

Anheuser-Busch InBev, the Belgian-Brazilian brewer, mandated a group of 21 banks to provide its $75bn loan facility, but there was no coordinator as AB InBev took an active role in arranging the transaction.

ICBC New York returned to the dollar bond market one year after its debut with a $1bn dual-tranche offering on November 5. While the deal was popular with Asian accounts, interest from the US was lukewarm because of the issuer’s aggressive pricing tactic.

Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg (LBBW) went for size on Thursday as it was set to print a €500m tap of its outstanding September 2017 floating rate notes, bringing the total outstanding debt to €1.15bn.

The Asia ex-Japan bond market sprung to life on November 12 with China Huarong Asset Management, China State Construction Engineering Corp and Beijing Properties opening books for dollar bonds, while Korea Housing Finance Corp (KHFC) opted for a covered bond and Malaysia’s Axiata Group, a sukuk.

Korean Air Lines is getting ready to hit the offshore bond market, having hired a bank and secured a guarantee from the Export-Import Bank of Korea (Kexim) for a hybrid deal.

Anheuser-Busch InBev, the Belgian-Brazilian brewer, submitted a final recommended offer for SABMiller on Wednesday, having raised a record $75bn loan to support the transaction.

Alliance Data Systems, the unrated US private label credit card and marketing services provider, is set to end meetings with European investors on Thursday for €300m of unsecured notes, its first euro issue.