Goldman Sachs
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BMW returned to the bond market on Tuesday, November 10, with a €1.25bn deal, its first issue since the Volkswagen emissions scandal made investors reassess their attitude to the car industry.
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McCarthy & Stone, the UK’s leading builder of retirement homes for sale, completed its IPO on Friday November 6, in a £336m deal that gave it an initial market capitalisation of £967m.
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WPP, the UK advertising firm, attracted more than €3bn of orders for its four year benchmark bond on Tuesday as investors showed they were willing to turn on the taps for the right deal.
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Amundi, Europe’s largest asset manager, made a smart stockmarket debut on Thursday, rising 3.6% in a falling market, after completing its €1.5bn IPO the previous day. -
Rumours that the European Central Bank will add German regions to its public sector purchase programme fuelled demand for a State of Hessen benchmark on Thursday, said bankers.
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India issues RFP for Concor sale — Bank of Jinzhou readies IPO — China Energy and UNV to pre-market
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ICBC New York returned to the dollar bond market one year after its debut with a $1bn dual-tranche offering on November 5. While the deal was popular with Asian accounts, interest from the US was lukewarm because of the issuer’s aggressive pricing tactic.
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The Asia ex-Japan bond market sprung to life on November 12 with China Huarong Asset Management, China State Construction Engineering Corp and Beijing Properties opening books for dollar bonds, while Korea Housing Finance Corp (KHFC) opted for a covered bond and Malaysia’s Axiata Group, a sukuk.
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A German state is on track to wrap up its funding for the year on Thursday, as an agency from the country is tipped to bring a benchmark next week.
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Anheuser-Busch InBev has secured a $75bn syndicated loan, which has been described as “the world’s largest ever loan”, for its £71bn recommended acquisition of SABMiller.
