Europe
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Natixis Pfandbriefbank priced its debut publicly syndicated transaction on Wednesday after previously only issuing private placements.
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Two of the most familiar names in the high yield borrower base on Wednesday launched a splash of payment-in-kind notes, a rare structure which has constituted only €570m of sales this year. -
Kenneth Madill has joined Bank of China in London to run bond syndicate, joining a growing EMEA DCM effort in London.
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Paragon Group made a rare appearance in the public capital markets on Monday, raising £150m of tier two capital as it looks to optimise its capital stack and gain some protection against potential rule changes.
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Eurofins Scientific, the French laboratory testing firm, has successfully completed a €296m capital increase, nine months after a similar transaction failed due to a lack of demand.
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Israeli plastics manufacturer Keter Plastic has launched its €790m buyout loan package with a bank meeting scheduled for Monday morning in London.
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Emerging market economic growth managed to hang on to much of its momentum over August, according to the latest release of the IHS Markit Emerging Market Composite PMI index.
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Transport infrastructure group Ferrovial on Wednesday returned to the bond market after a two year absence, selling a €500m note. It was followed later in the week by two other Spanish corporates.
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Eris Exchange, the US-based futures exchange group, has opened a London office and hired a long-serving Barclays banker to oversee the European operations.
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SIG Combibloc, the Swiss packaging firm owned by Onex, launched its second repricing request on its leveraged buyout loans with a lender call scheduled for Thursday morning New York time, as replies were due on Armacell's own repricing.
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The $8.8bn merger between UK software company Micro Focus and assets of Hewlett Packard Enterprise has gifted the loan market a $5.5bn deal, one of the largest in the UK this year.
