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BOC Aviation took off with its first dollar-denominated dual-tranche offering on Monday, marking a rapid return to the international debt market this year. -
Euro corporate bond issuance returned on Friday after a blank day due to Thursday’s European Central Bank meeting. As the ECB’s president, Mario Draghi, said nothing to unsettle markets, US machinery maker John Deere and Italian oil and gas company Eni both priced deals in euros before the weekend, while Sweden's Akelius Property did the same in sterling.
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Sherwin-Williams, the US paint and coatings maker, has issued its debut Schuldschein for €245m. It is the first US company to come to the market this year.
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India’s TCNS Clothing Co has mandated Citi and Kotak Mahindra Capital for an IPO slated for next year, according to bankers close to the matter.
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ICICI Lombard General Insurance, India’s largest private sector non-life insurer, is set to launch its IPO on September 15, and is eyeing up to Rp57bn ($892.8m).
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A tremendously supportive SSA market brushed off Thursday’s European Central Bank (ECB) meeting, printing all the way up to the morning of the press conference by bank president Mario Draghi, writes Lewis McLellan.
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The dollar high grade bond market returned to barnstorming form this week following the summer break with a Who’s Who of corporate America tapping the market.
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Sean Weissenberger has moved to Citi to run EMEA chemicals investment banking.
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Lewis Kaden, a former vice chairman at Citi, has taken a position on the advisory board of Baton Systems, the fintech payments processing company.
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LCH SwapAgent has processed its first trades, with Citi and Deutsche Bank becoming the system's first counterparties as they executed a Swiss franc denominated interest rate swap and a euro denominated inflation swap.
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Asian equity capital markets jolted back into life this week, with a handful of overnight blocks signalling the end of the summer lull during the constant furore on the Korean peninsula. Despite the uncertainty, bankers predict equity markets will absorb the noise and battle through. Jonathan Breen reports.
