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India oil refining and petrochemical company HPCL-Mittal Energy found support for its $300m bond sale on Tuesday, after offering investors a generous premium. -
Chinese online education platform Youdao has launched bookbuilding for its New York Stock Exchange listing, eyeing up to $100.8m from the deal.
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JP Morgan, Citi and Goldman Sachs kicked off the third quarter results season for investment banks on Tuesday. While debt and equity underwriting revenues grew substantially at JP Morgan compared with the equivalent quarter of last year, they fell at Goldman.
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Running in parallel with the rapid growth of the green bond market have been the numerous labels for these bonds. But the abundance of green labels risks confusing investors and diluting an important vehicle to finance projects to clean up the planet.
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The World Bank appointed banks on Tuesday to lead its first 10 year dollar benchmark in almost two years to join a flurry of SSAs who have recently ventured into this rarely visited part of the curve in the currency. Meanwhile, Finnvera has mandated banks for its second syndicated trade of the year.
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Nigeria’s Seplat Petroleum is in advanced staged talks for an around £382m cash acquisition of London-listed Eland Oil & Gas, with the buyer partly financing the deal with a new loan.
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China Lesso Group has increased a four year borrowing to around $1.1bn, after attracting 16 lenders during syndication.
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Germany’s ZF Friedrichshafen set final terms on a multi-tranche €2.7bn bond on Monday, with the car parts maker seeing far more demand at wider spreads than where it raised a similar amount in the Schuldschein market in recent weeks.
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Anglo-Australian firm BHP Group has trimmed down the size of its revolving credit facility, with the mining and extraction multinational agreeing a $5.25bn deal with lenders.
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The six biggest US investment banks alongside three European firms have created DirectBooks to assist primary market bond sales. It aims to start in the US investment grade corporate market before branching out to other fixed income products.
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Dutch chemicals company OCI is issuing almost $1.4bn of senior secured notes to repay outstanding debt, with a long term aim of simplifying its capital structure and deleveraging.
