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Spanish pharmaceutical company Grifols is planning to take advantage of balmy market conditions with a refinancing package that will replace most of its outstanding debt. The package will consist of a $3bn term loan B in dollars, a $1.6bn TLB in euros and $1.25bn of senior secured bonds issued in euros. -
Mamoura Diversified Global Holdings (formerly Mubadala Development Company) has released initial price guidance for its dollar triple trancher at levels a rival syndicate official said looked fair, and included another 30 year bond from the region in just over a month.
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Europe’s lacklustre market for IPOs is showing little signs of improvement as the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), the African trade finance group, pulled its $250m IPO on the London Stock Exchange, blaming “unfavourable market conditions”.
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Australia’s Vicinity Centres, a real estate investment trust, issued a €500m bond on Monday, slipping into what is expected to be a week of weak activity before the high grade bond markets light up again next month.
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Infrequent issuer Toyota Industries Finance International revisited the MTN market at the end of last week to place its second euro floater of the year. Meanwhile, in dollars, a trio of emerging market banks have printed fixed and floating rate paper in the last week.
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LBBW had enough support from investors to price a new additional tier one (AT1) with hardly any new issue premium on Monday, having been pushed into entering the asset class for the first time as a result of recent changes to the rules on bank capital in Europe.
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Berlin Hyp on Monday launched its first preferred senior bond in green format. The German issuer chose a 10 year maturity and quickly attracted orders, supported by an investor community that follows the bank’s frequent green issuance.
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HSBC’s head of UK investment banking has resigned as the bank continues to reshuffle its senior ranks.
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Berlin Hyp announced on Friday that it intended to sell a preferred senior bond in green format. It is the second German bank this week to disclose intentions to market a bond, following LBBW.
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CPPIB Capital raised $1bn with a 10 year bond this week but despite the deal securing the issuer’s lowest ever funding cost at that tenor, bankers were unimpressed by the level of demand, adding to claims that demand for 10 year paper is waning.
