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Seplat Petroleum, a Nigerian oil and gas exploration and production company, was offering a 9% handle for its market debut on Monday. -
Dubai based developer Majid Al Futtaim has launched a tender offer and new issue in order to optimise the cost of its hybrid capital and balance sheet structure.
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Credito Valtellinese, the Lombard bank which is raising capital to meet requirements of the European Central Bank, has announced that investors have taken 83% of its pre-emptive rights issue, with several firms anchoring the deal.
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French car manufacturer Peugeot has been on a ratings rollercoaster in the last 10 years. On Friday, now back to the highest sub-investment grade ratings, the company sold its third seven year deal in three years.
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Shenzhen Sunway Communications has made a quick switch to Hong Kong dollars for its debut in the offshore loans market to take advantage of recent Hibor weakness.
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The Philippines’ Rizal Commercial Banking Corp (RCBC) found tepid investor demand for its dollar transaction on Thursday, but managed to raise $300m from the bond.
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India’s National Stock Exchange (NSE) is likely to delay its long-awaited IPO to the 2019 financial year after the country’s market regulator sent back the bourse’s consent plea on an issue around co-location, amid an ongoing investigation.
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Guarantor: All Danish municipalities and regions
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The Province of Alberta printed a strong 10 year dollar benchmark on Thursday — the first in that maturity from an SSA since late January — leading the way for others to follow, said SSA bankers. Elsewhere, five years was very much in vogue in the dollar market — although there were some signs of investor fatigue by the end of the week, despite more issuers being expected to look at the tenor next week.
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The Province of Alberta printed a strong 10 year dollar benchmark on Thursday — the first from an SSA since late January — leading the way for others to follow, said SSA bankers. Elsewhere, Export Development Canada was unable to move from price thoughts on a five year global.
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The pipeline for euro-denominated African bonds is beginning to bulge, with Cote d’Ivoire announcing plans to follow Senegal to the market this week and Tunisia and Egypt preparing their own deals. But, as Virginia Furness reports, while large euro books show there is strong appetite for speculative grade supply, and is opening up a new funding channel for EM borrowers, the cost of funding in the currency versus dollars is unlikely to improve.
