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Poland’s mBank will hit the road next week for its first euro senior deal since November 2014. The bank did plan a roadshow for a euro bond in 2015 but decided not to go ahead with the meetings as the issuer did not like the levels available, according to an EM banker.
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Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission has reprimanded HSBC and fined it HK$2.5m ($$322,260) for regulatory breaches and internal control failings linked to position limit failures, it said in a statement.
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Peru's finance minister, Alfredo Thorne, will be among the representatives as the country carries out a week-long roadshow starting on Monday ahead of a planned sol-denominated bond issue.
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Bayer, the German life sciences company, has clinched an agreement with the board of Monsanto to buy the US company for an enterprise value of $66bn, to be financed with one of the largest rights issues in history.
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National Grid Gas followed its £3bn Tuesday visit to the sterling market with a €750m eight year bond that completes its primary bond market financing ahead of its 2017 sale.
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On Wednesday, Bayer said that five banks have agreed to provide the hefty bridge loan for its $66bn acquisition of US agrochemicals specialist, Monsanto. But the $57bn deal is not yet being syndicated, according to one of Bayer’s relationship banks.
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TMF Group, the business services provider based in Amsterdam, and Unilabs, the laboratory services firm from Geneva, have both launched loan refinancing packages with TMF holding bank meetings last Friday in London, Unilabs on Thursday.
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A jumbo bond intended to refinance the debt of merged companies Quintiles and IMS on Wednesday added to a deluge of high yield issuance, with the market seeing €4bn of new bonds by Thursday.
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State Bank of India launched the first-ever offshore Basel III compliant additional tier one (AT1) bank capital offering from an Indian name on Wednesday, a deal market participants expect to set the pricing benchmark for future Indian lenders from this asset class.
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BOC Aviation is out with a $1bn borrowing, opening the dual tranche deal into general syndication on Tuesday, according to bankers.
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Taiwanese electronics company Foxconn (Far East) has set its sights on a dual-tranche dollar offering, launching the bond on Wednesday morning in Asia.
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Some 54 anchor orders of more than $50m each helped Mexican oil company Pemex to raise $4bn of new bonds on Tuesday despite volatility sweeping Lat Am bond markets following a sell-off in US Treasuries.