BNP Paribas
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A conveyor belt of dollar benchmarks from SSAs passed quality control this week despite tough background conditions. But there are signs issuers are following those in euros by boosting concessions.
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Altice, the fast-growing French cable telecoms investment group, raised €1.61bn of new capital today (Thursday October 1) with an intraday accelerated bookbuild, to finance its acquisition of Cablevision, the US cable company.
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Kommuninvest and KfW found good demand for short dated dollar benchmarks on Thursday despite difficult market conditions.
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World Bank on Wednesday sold the largest dollar benchmark from an SSA since July, as other issuers lined up deals in the currency.
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UK property firm Hammerson has signed a €1bn revolving credit facility to buy a €1.85bn loan portfolio from Ireland’s National Asset Management Agency.
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Turkcell will add to a busy September of funding by signing up to €1.25bn of loans with the China Development Bank in the next few days. -
Bank of China Paris branch, BNP Paribas, HSBC France and Natixis are to share euro/offshore RMB (CNH) exchange rate information, financial organisation Paris Europlace said in a September 24 press release.
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China Development Bank opened books on September 29 for a dollar-euro combo, taking advantage of a small issuance window before China begins its Golden Week holidays on Thursday.
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Schiphol Group, the owner of Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, on Monday sold €300m of secured notes, in a European corporate bond market that bankers say has overcome its recent anxiety about macroeconomic issues.
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On Thursday, September 24, GlobalCapital held its 2015 Global Derivatives Dinner at Banking Hall in London and revealed the winners of its Global Derivatives Awards 2015.
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National Grid pulled off the rare trick on Thursday of issuing a convertible bond without any risk of diluting its shareholders, writes Jon Hay. The feat relies on an arbitrage that is only occasionally available, and has been accomplished just twice before in Europe in the last decade, bankers said.
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Municipality Finance brought a taste of bank finance to the public sector this week setting a few records along the way.
