BNP Paribas
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On Friday Nestlé extended by a year €5bn five year revolving credit facility it had signed in October 2013. The Swiss foods producer also replaced a €5bn-equivalent short term facility with a new facility of €6bn. -
Reliance Jio Infocomm’s $1.5bn dual tranche loan that opened in September has received around $280m in commitments from five lenders during general syndication. At least five more banks are processing approvals for the loan and the deadline for commitments has been extended to November 24 to allow them to come in.
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BNP Paribas’s traditional strength in fixed income paid off in its third quarter numbers, as the return of volatility in September allowed it to turn in a solid performance in FX and rates. Meanwhile French rival Société Générale had a tougher quarter thanks to sliding equity volumes, though it still reported strength in its market-leading equity derivatives business.
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Council of Europe crowned a week of tightly priced deals from high quality issuers in dollars with the first benchmark to reach the five year point of the curve since the dollar market was engulfed in volatility in mid-October. Sweden kicked off proceedings with an oversubscribed three year that came at the deepest level through mid-swaps for a deal of that tenor all year.
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United Internet — Marine Harvest — Heathrow
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RAC, the UK car recovery breakdown firm, has allocated its £1.25bn refinancing and recapitalisation loan after flexing the facility’s original issue discount in investors' favour.
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The European Central Bank's covered bond purchase programme (CBPP3) turned relative value upside down this week, with a French deal pricing inside a similar Swedish offering, among a crop of four new issues.
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Cassa del Trentino showed one of the big advantages of an MTN programme when it nipped in to take advantage of a one day rally in Italian government bonds and save precious basis points on its funding costs.
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German internet services provider United Internet is marketing a €300m Schuldschein, which is understood to be already oversubscribed.
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Ontex, the Belgian nappy maker, priced on Wednesday its €250m high yield bond at par with a 4.75% coupon, as part of a debt restructuring that made Moody’s upgrade its rating one notch to Ba3.
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Kompany Weglowa has released initial price thoughts for a dollar benchmark five year bond at 9% yield area. As the company is 100% state-owned, this will make the bonds eligible for JP Morgan’s EMBIG (Emerging Market Bond Index Global) index. Syndicate officials away from the deal praised leads for having made this clear early as they said this, together with the bond's juicy yield, would likely drive demand higher.
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