Crédit Agricole

Slovenia this week became the latest sovereign to be tempted into pre-funding by the low yields on offer, following deals from Lithuania and Romania last week. The issuer priced a long seven year bond that marks the lowest coupon on any of its outstanding medium to long term euro benchmarks.

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Hutchison Whampoa showed off its impeccable access to bond markets, rewriting the record books and selling $5.4bn worth of dollar and euro bonds on October 28 in what is the largest corporate offshore deal to come out of Asia ex-Japan.

Slovenia on Tuesday was able to ratchet in pricing on a long seven year benchmark — which is for pre-funding — by 15bp from the initial price thoughts level to price with a new issue concession of just 4bp.

Indonesian power company Pertamina, which mandated 12 lenders for its $1.8bn five year loan, will fund a portion of the financing onshore.

Hutchison Whampoa showed off its impeccable access to bond markets today by selling dollar and euro bonds in the same day, and raising $5.4bn with heavily oversubscribed books.

Klépierre, the French real estate investment trust that specialises in shopping centres, issued a €500m 10 year bond on Tuesday and launched a tender offer for two other issues, to extend the maturity of its debt.

Slovenia has opened books for a long seven year benchmark bond for pre-funding purposes. It is taking the first available window after market participants had digested the results of the European Banking Authority’s comprehensive assessment — which found two Slovenian banks wanting.

Louis Dreyfus Commodities is refinancing a loan facility raised in December 2011, reducing the amount from $800m to $600m.

French chemicals company Arkema has closed the syndication of the €1.5bn bridge facility for its €1.74bn acquisition of Bostik.

Arkema, the French chemicals company, launched its hybrid bond issue successfully on Thursday, having decided to press ahead with the deal despite market conditions that are much less favourable for higher risk deals than in September.

Arkema, the French chemicals company, launched its hybrid bond issue successfully on Thursday, having decided to press ahead with the deal despite market conditions that are much less favourable for higher risk deals than in September.