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World Bank roared into the dollar market on Tuesday with the largest five year benchmark in the currency in over a year, as KfW and Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten hit screens with short dated mandates.
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Export Development Canada is to print a long four year sterling bond as demand for paper in the currency defied fears of a possible UK's exit from the European Union.
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DP World, one of the world’s largest port operators, has mandated nine banks for a dollar sukuk and is looking to price the deal next week.
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Qatar has mandated banks for a dollar senior unsecured bond, which bankers away from the note are expecting to be as large as $5bn in total.
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Solihull-headquartered infrastructure product manufacturer Hill & Smith has refinanced its £210m revolving credit facility, extending the maturity by two years.
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Industrial and Commercial Bank of China sealed a new $500m three year bond via its Hong Kong unit on Monday, less than two weeks after its Singapore branch scooped up $800m. Although the issuer checked all the boxes, demand from Chinese onshore accounts was weak given the recent flurry of financial names in the market.
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Eranove, the west African electricity and water company, has put its IPO plans on ice after a regulatory change in Ivory Coast that will lead to greater competition in the power market.
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A £1bn bond from the European Investment Bank last Friday should inspire other issuers to try their luck in the sterling market this week, said bankers.
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The City of Buenos Aires is set to become the third Argentine sub-sovereign to tap international bond markets since the sovereign sold $16.5bn of debt in April.
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Tencent Holdings has received enough commitments to more than double its $1.5bn loan as liquidity continues to pour in for names in the Chinese technology sector, said sources close to the trade.
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Samsonite International has signed a credit agreement with its lenders for the $2.425bn financing it took out to back its takeover of premium luggage maker Tumi, according to a company filing.
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Less than two weeks after its Singapore branch issued a three year bond, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China’s Hong Kong unit is now joining the fray with an identical transaction.