Crédit Agricole
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KKR, the US private equity firm, has agreed to buy John Laing in a cash deal that values the UK infrastructure developer at £2bn. KKR will fund the purchase using a mix of equity and debt. -
Ryanair, the Irish budget airline, landed a far more solid bond issue on Tuesday than shopping centre operator Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield had a day earlier, as both companies try to recover in sectors ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic.
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CDP Financial, one of Canada's largest public pension asset managers, joined three other public sector borrowers in the dollar market on Tuesday to sell its debut green bond.
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CaixaBank extended its social bond curve with a non-preferred senior deal on Tuesday, raising €1bn with what was its first deal since it completed a merger with Bankia in late March.
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Property developer China Vanke Co brought a rare investment grade-rated corporate deal to the offshore renminbi (CNH) bond market on Monday, pricing the deal inside its dollar curve after a warm response from investors.
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Europe’s high grade corporate bond investors had an array of novel trades to consider on Monday, with debutants and a rare antipodean issuer marketing euro transactions.
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Crédit Agricole CIB has conducted what it believes is a unique green bond issue for its Taiwan branch, in which the issuer, investors and underwriters have together made a “solidarity” payment to a charity, Plastic Odyssey, which works to remove plastic pollution from the oceans.
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Île-de-France Mobilités, the state-owned authority for public transport in the Île-de-France region, is set to make its first trip to the green bond market. The borrower intends to use green bonds for around 60% of its financing needs until the end of 2025.
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Three Chinese companies decided to tackle their refinancing needs on Monday with new bonds, grabbing a short issuance window ahead of a public holiday in Hong Kong and some other Asian markets on Wednesday.
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A trio of senior borrowers paid minimal new issue premiums in euros this week as Swedbank and AIB Group tapped a sweet spot of demand for bail-inable debt, while Macquarie got attractive pricing compared to its dollar curve.
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Macquarie shed over a third of its order book on Wednesday as it priced its third euro deal in 18 months at what was deemed a “very tight” level. It was joined in the senior market by Swedbank, which was issuing its first callable non-preferred bond.
