Deutsche Bank
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Finnish commercial real estate company Citycon was the second Nordic borrower to print bonds in two weeks, following a three month spell when no corporate borrowers from the region came to the market.
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German chemical company Evonik hit the reopened European investment grade corporate bond market at pace on Tuesday, as it sought financing for its €3.5bn acquisition of US industrial gas provider Air Products’ speciality and coating additives business.
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China’s Yestar International Holdings Company and South Korea’s Nonghyup Bank have kicked off investor meetings for their respective bond offerings.
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Indonesia’s Cikarang Listrindo and Hong Kong’s Far East Consortium International have set sights on the international bond market, having appointed banks to work on their respective dollar offerings.
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UniCredit Italy took advantage of constructive conditions and scarce Italian covered bond supply to launch a 10 year on Wednesday. The bank was rewarded with a well oversubscribed order book while paying little new issue premium.
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A surfeit of supply hit the long end of the covered bond curve this week as issuers piled in to take advantage of extraordinarily cheap funding conditions that are unlikely to last long. Bill Thornhill reports.
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Hemso Fastighets and Galp Gas Natural Distribuiçao on Thursday mandated banks to issue bonds during the first two weeks of September.
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The gap to repay a €2.7bn bridge facility that supports HeidelbergCement's purchase of Italcementi is set to close once the former cashes in the sale of its West Virginia factory.
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The long end of the Kanga curve saw action this week, as Japanese investors hunted for yieldy paper.
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China’s Xinyuan Real Estate brought a three year deal to the dollar market on Wednesday, attracting yield-hungry investors with an 8% handle.
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Hemant Sabherwal, a Hong Kong-based director of equity capital markets at Deutsche Bank, has left the German lender.
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The Brexit vote has damaged banks’ UK hiring plans and left their revenue projections in tatters, but the country’s status as Europe’s biggest fee pool will remain intact, writes David Rothnie.