Europe
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888 Holdings, the London-listed online gaming firm, will buy rival bwin.party using a $600m term loan and $50m revolving credit facility. -
Austrian insurer Uniqa Group has launched a €500m subordinated note, its first appearance in the market since 2013.
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Crédit Agricole’s head of DCM for Asia is returning to London, GlobalCapital understands.
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Balta Group, a Belgian carpet maker, on Monday announced a €290m secured bond to support its acquisition by private equity firm Lone Star.
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Ak Bars Bank has mandated Credit Suisse and UBS to arrange a Eurobond. If the deal goes ahead, it will be the first new issue from Russia this year.
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Natixis has appointed Pascal Soldaini to a CEEMEA focused position in its global infrastructure and projects business.
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Banco Popular Espanol has mandated leads for a long five year Cedulas benchmark, the second from Spain in that maturity this year.
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Three banks will publish on Monday a set of principles for social and sustainability bonds, which they suggest should be added as an appendix to the Green Bond Principles.
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Slovenia’s development bank, SID banka, has picked banks for a potential euro transaction five years after its last benchmark issue.
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The Central Bank of Ireland has clarified rules governing investments by Ireland-registered UCITS funds that want to invest in China A-shares via the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect.
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VTB has launched a multi-tranche tender offer for dollar, Australian dollar and Swiss francs bonds.
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Covered bond issuers have provided more than €7bn of supply this week after a moribund spell, proving themselves to be more nimble and opportunistic than perhaps ever before.
