BNP Paribas
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Property developer Sino-Ocean Land Holdings has upped the size of its three year facility to $800m from $450m, boosted by robust demand. -
Four more banks have signed up to Giant Interactive’s $850m five year leveraged buyout loan, taking total commitments to $260m.
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With rumours rife that two Russian borrowers are about to break the country’s silence and launch new bonds, the EM bond market is awash with Turkish borrowers looking to rush through deals while they have a clear run.
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Ryanair’s first bond issue was always likely to be a hit in the current buoyant markets, but the runaway success of Tuesday’s €850m sale still left lead managers delighted.
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General Electric is the world’s biggest bond issuer, and usually one of the US issuers that comes most frequently to European markets — partly to diversify its funding, and partly because it has European-based businesses to finance.
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Standard Chartered’s two tranche offering of senior unsecured debt this week represented some of the cheapest funding the bank has raised since its inception in 1868, said Chris Danels, global head of capital management at the bank. It showed that despite the ever intensifying search for yield, investors are also still hungry to diversify into low beta paper.
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Swiss vending machine operator Selecta priced €550m-equivalent of bonds on Thursday at 6.5%, the tight end of price talk.
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French mortar producer Parex has changed the structure of its new bond offering to include only floating rate notes.
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Spanish olive oil producer Deoleo scrapped the entire dollar tranche of its €600m loan last week but as the dust settles on the deal it has emerged that US, rather than European investors, played the pivotal role in this swing.
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A bevy of SSA issuers was able to print dollar benchmarks at tight levels this week, crystallising strong performances seen since the start of the year.
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This week's European corporate bond issuance continued to pick up the pace on Thursday, as four deals came to the mainstream euro and sterling markets, plus an Austrian retail-targeted issue for Novomatic, which makes gambling machines.
