Credit Suisse
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The Financial Conduct Authority has banned Mark Stevenson, a former Credit Suisse Gilts trader, from the financial industry, and fined him for manipulating the market in a particular Gilt ahead of a round of quantitative easing.
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The prospect of rising interest rates did not stop Mexican conglomerate Grupo Alfa raising 30 year money as part of its debut dollar bond on Thursday as a more hawkish than expected US Federal Reserve did little to hinder new issues from Latin America. -
Piraeus Bank built a blow-out book for its three year bond, in a transaction that could herald the coming of a wider array of peripheral borrowers.
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Total, the French oil company rated Aa1/AA-, launched its first benchmark euro bond of the year on Tuesday, after a $2.5bn issue in January.
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British laboratory testing firm Exova launched a £200m IPO on Thursday, using the primary proceeds to reduce its debt.
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All eyes were on Harbin Bank this week after the Chinese lender started receiving bids for its HK$10.1bn ($1.3bn) listing on March 19. The bank has had a bumpy ride in the run-up to the launch, and it is also being impaired by regulatory constraints and lacklustre investor appetite, write Clare Hammond and Rev Hui.
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Four months after social media giant Twitter raised $2.1bn in one of the most anticipated IPOs of 2013, its Chinese counterpart Weibo Corporation has filed for a $500m US listing.
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Chinese company Giant Investment, which is taking private online game developer Giant Interactive, has picked a group of seven banks to provide it with $850m to fund the leveraged buyout.
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Professional information technology education provider Tarena International started receiving bids for its $153m Nasdaq listing on March 19 as it looks to hook investors in with a tried and tested sector – the China tech growth story.
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Caribbean telecoms company Digicel sold $1bn of eight year non-call three bonds on Wednesday in a deal run off the leads’ US high yield desks as it looks to buy back up to $775m of existing debt.
