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The merger of Portugal Telecom and Oi, Brazil’s largest telecoms company, is credit-positive for the Portuguese firm, according to bond market sources.
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Oberthur Technologies, the French smart card maker, has launched a €200m high yield bond issue as part of a loan-and-bond refinancing of its 2011 buyout debt. The bond is expected to be priced concurrently with €440m-equivalent of transatlantic covenant-lite loans next week.
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Jefferies has sold €400m of first and second lien four year high yield bonds for the takeover of a 33% stake in Greek state lottery and football betting operator OPAP.
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Russia's adoption of Basel III regulation could add impetus to efforts to build a securitization market in the country. With banks being forced to hold more capital, pushing down shareholders’ return on equity, both parties are itching to find new ways to jettison assets from the balance sheet, said analysts.
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Smurfit Kappa has announced that it will call its €500m 7.25% 2017 bond. The Dublin-headquartered paper packaging producer can call the bond from November 15 this year.
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An amend and extend of outstanding debt by Worldwide Flight Services, the aviation company owned by private equity firm LBO France, received unanimous consent from the company’s existing group of investors on Tuesday. The deal, which will close in the next few weeks, will extend the maturity and substantially increase the margins on two of the debt’s tranches.