Most recent/Bond comments/Ad
Most recent/Bond comments/Ad
Most recent
Observers have questioned why the country is issuing debt at this price
The seven year dollar bond's yield will likely be one of the highest in CEEMEA in the last few years
The familiar problem of inter-creditor opacity has also reappeared
Company in 'no doubt' a public trade would have delivered better pricing
More articles/Ad
More articles/Ad
More articles
-
Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) has announced the winning banking consortium for its annual trade finance facility, with Chinese banks making up two of the five top slots amid increased funding from the Asian country. -
South Africa’s Aspen Pharmacare has signed syndicated loans totalling around €3.4bn-equivalent, in a deal that saw the sort of chunky oversubscription that lenders say will be commonplace throughout the year, because of lack of supply.
-
South Africa raised $2bn in a difficult market on Tuesday, after US Treasuries widened unexpectedly at just the moment that the sovereign began marketing its new deal. The resulting sell-off in both South Africa’s curve and the rand meant that the issuer was not able to tighten pricing as much as had been anticipated, and the deal was smaller.
-
Egypt’s Banque Misr is looking to raise dollar funding from the loan market, according to lenders, continuing the trend of financial institutions in the country raising international bank debt.
-
South Africa had to contend with an unexpected widening in US Treasuries when marketing its new deal on Tuesday. The resulting sell-off in both South Africa’s curve and the rand meant that the issuer was not able to tighten pricing as much as had been anticipated, and the deal was smaller overall.
-
South Africa has opened books on its first sovereign trade this year and is looking to capitalise on goodwill towards president Cyril Ramaphosa’s economic transformation efforts. It hopes to offset the recent spread widening that has followed weakness in the rand — and in broader emerging markets — as a result of the stronger dollar.
