Goldman Sachs
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Places for People, the UK housing association and property management company, has raised €150m from a privately placed note led by Goldman Sachs. -
Hazem Shawki is set to join Credit Suisse from Goldman Sachs in order to lead its investment banking operations in the Middle East, Turkey and Africa, with a particular focus on pushing further into the Saudi Arabian market.
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The consortium building the second line of the Lima and Callao Metro in Peru will meet bond investors this week as it looks to finance a mandatory redemption of a portion of the borrower’s existing notes caused by delays in the project.
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A wave of issuers — mostly Chinese — including China Mengniu Dairy Co and local government financing vehicle Guangzhou Development District Financial Holdings flooded the bond market on Thursday, riding the positive sentiment after the US Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell signalled a rate cut later this month.
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ArcelorMittal jumped into the dollar bond market on Thursday to take advantage of strong funding conditions, after Jerome Powell, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, stoked hopes of a rate cut in July.
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This week saw barnstorming trades from Italy and the European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF) in euros with the long end of the curve proving to be the strong end, and now rumours are swirling around the prospect of a Greek sovereign deal.
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Last week’s tightly priced bond issue by KfW has inspired a slew of issuers to print three year dollar notes this week. The Asian Development Bank was first off the blocks on Tuesday with a new benchmark, while a tight Export Development Canada trade followed the next day.
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Export Development Canada and Erste Abwicklungsanstalt raised short term dollar debt on Wednesday as the market was buoyed by a dovish congressional testimony from the chair of the Federal Reserve.
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Europe's investment grade bond market has slowed from a sprint to a jog, and now to a walk. On Wednesday, Westlake Chemical Corp is the only issuer, taking the baton from the indefatigable Aroundtown, which had kept things going on Tuesday.
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Aroundtown, the German property company, chose Tuesday, when the European corporate bond market was otherwise empty of new issues to sell its second hybrid capital deal in as many months.
