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India’s Yes Bank raised $600m in its first offshore bond sale on Monday, as it makes international strides through its new banking unit. -
The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Municipality Finance announced sterling transactions for Tuesday, making this January a remarkably busy one for the currency.
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A trio of Europe’s less frequent public sector borrowers are set to hit screens for euro transactions on Tuesday, following a long end benchmark from a French agency on January 26.
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Qatar National Bank is expected to sign its $3bn loan refinancing in the first week of February, according to a source close to the deal.
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Two Chinese property developers are in the market on Monday evening to sell convertible bonds with nearly identical structures.
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Bank of China-backed BOC Aviation executed a nimble Reg S only trade on Thursday, snapping up $300m. With the deal, the issuer managed to compress its curve, and is now trading more than 10bp inside its stronger regional leasing peers and as much as 30bp tighter than some others.
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Hong Kong-based insurer FWD sealed a $200m subordinated perpetual note on Thursday, but the trade lacked the kind of demand received for a similar deal last year.
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Trans Maldivian Airways has landed back in the Asian loan market for a $305m senior secured deal, following its acquisition by a consortium led by Bain Capital Private Equity at the end of last year.
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Ulrik Ross, recently head of public sector and sustainable capital markets at HSBC, has joined Saxo as head of group treasury.
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Public sector borrowers this week set new landmarks in what has already been an exemplary year in dollars, as KfW sold the largest 10 year dollar benchmark in 2.5 years and the Nordic Investment Bank priced the tightest deal versus swaps of 2018 so far. SSA bankers are confident that conditions will hold at both ends of the curve — allowing the possibility of further long end supply and even lower short end spreads.
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