HSBC
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Hong Kong-listed Sunac China Holdings has set its sights on the debt market for a dual tranche dollar bond, one week after sealing a HK$4.03bn ($516.2m) top-up placement.
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Anglian Water, priced a £250m eight year green bond on Monday. The size and tenor are unremarkable, and in a generation of sustainability and responsibility, a green bond should cause similarly few ripples. However, this was the first sterling-denominated green bond issued by a corporate borrower since 2015.
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United Biscuits, the maker of McVitie’s biscuits and Jacob's crackers, is to sign a £725m syndicated loan facility in the coming weeks to refinance a loan taken out in 2015 to fund its acquisition by Turkey’s Yıldız Holding.
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Turkey’s Coca-Cola İçecek (CCI) is set to offer investors a rare chance to buy Turkish corporate debt, and has announced its intention to raise up to $1bn from the bond markets within the next year.
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HSBC has hired a senior banker from UBS to oversee credit and lending products in its private banking unit in Asia.
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Handelsbanken has hired Nils Colldahl for its DCM team, as part of the bank's expansion of euro-denominated bond origination.
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India’s Axis Bank is in the market with a five year dollar bullet through its Dubai International Finance Centre branch, wooing the buy-side a year after its debut green bond.
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State Bank of India’s new $750m five year financing has been launched into syndication after a 10-strong bookrunner group funded the transaction.
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A US court has dismissed claims against HSBC, interdealer broker ICAP and trading platforms provider Tradeweb for unlawful collusion in the interest rate swaps market. However, claims against 10 other banks are still being tried.
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Anglian Water priced a £250m eight year bond on Monday, its first green bond and the first from a UK water company since the Green Bond Principles were introduced in 2015.
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HSBC has started to record a separate line in its financial reporting for "costs associated with the UK’s exit from the EU". The bank booked just $4m of costs this quarter for Brexit, but said costs could rise to $200m-$300m.
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Indonesian tyre maker Gajah Tunggal is planning a return to the dollar market to refinance a $500m 7.75% note coming due in February 2018.