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  • CEE
    Romania printed a €3bn triple trancher this week, the country’s largest ever euro deal, with one of the three tranches also being the longest ever euro bond from the country.
  • Steinhoff International continued to dispose of assets this week with a R4.8bn (€293m) sale in KAP Industrial Holdings, the South African industrial company, with the company expected to shed more holding to meet its subsidiaries' funding requirements.
  • State oil company Saudi Aramco is expected to tap the bond market in the next fortnight for a deal that could be anywhere in the region of $7bn-$15bn, according to bankers in the region away from the deal. Estimates of the premium Aramco will have to pay over the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia curve is being discussed as negative to plus 15bp, depending on the size of the deal.
  • Aramco’s eagerly awaited $69.1bn deal to buy petrochemical firm Sabic landed this week, prompting speculation over the financing’s structure and timing. Loans bankers are expecting to cover a large portion of the deal and expect it will be well supported, writes Mariam Meskin.
  • A jump in Indonesia Eximbank’s non-performing loan (NPL) ratio caused it to breach a loan covenant, it was revealed this week. Lenders reckon the policy bank is likely to be successful in gaining their consent to waive the covenant, but growing NPLs will make it difficult for other south and southeast Asian borrowers to raise funds, writes Pan Yue.
  • India’s Metropolis Healthcare has set the terms for its Rp12bn ($174.5m) IPO and is preparing to launch book building next week, according to a term sheet seen by GlobalCapital Asia.