Deutsche Bank
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Camelia Robu and Paramvir Sethi, two senior leveraged finance bankers previously with Deutsche Bank, will take on new roles in December at HSBC’s leveraged and acquisition finance unit in London.
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Banks outside the bulge bracket are pushing to be allowed more influence and information in high yield bond syndications, which have traditionally been tightly controlled by the top banks. Victor Jimenez reports.
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Barclays has taken on a former member of Deutsche Bank’s FIG DCM team in Paris.
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The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka has tapped the dollar bond market for the second time this year with a $1.5bn transaction. Even though the sovereign had to pay up more than in its May outing, it ended up executing its largest ever bond.
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The syndication timeline for a $145m loan backing the Blackstone Group’s acquisition of some Indian assets has been pushed back.
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ABN Amro’s IPO, one of the most hotly awaited flotations of 2015, has cleared the last hurdle needed before the deal’s launch, with the release today of an intention to float announcement.
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Hapag-Lloyd, the German container shipping firm, is still hoping to complete its $410m IPO, but has extended the bookbuild by a week in the hope of gathering enough demand. The deal was shrunk before the start of the bookbuild.
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Procter and Gamble, the US consumer goods company, brought a €1.25bn bond issue to the European market on Tuesday, bringing life to an otherwise moribund reverse Yankee market.
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The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is out in the dollar bond market for the second time this year, marketing a new deal on Tuesday. The country has opted for the same format, tenor as the previous deal via the same banks.
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There were no new issues in the European FIG market on Monday, but bankers are optimistic that bank capital could return this week.
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Malaysian telecommunications company Axiata Group has mandated banks for its first Islamic bond in more than three years.
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