HSBC

Hammerson, the UK property company, has signed a £420m revolving credit facility with eight banks, including four new lenders.

A pair of investment grade issuers, Maybank and JD.com, ventured into the dollar bond market on Friday albeit with quite different trades.

Hongkong Electric has made a successful comeback to the bond market after an absence of more than five years. Thanks to its status as a premium and a rare credit, the company reeled in investors and priced the trade well inside fair value.

Huawei Investment & Holding Co is joining the current Chinese tech frenzy in the debt market, mandating banks for a Reg S dollar bond.

Argentina fever has gripped financial markets after the sovereign’s record breaking return to international bond markets this week, with sub-sovereigns likely to be the first to take advantage of the clamour for bonds.

European Central Bank president Mario Draghi kept his powder dry at his latest monetary policy meeting on Thursday, sending eurozone government bond yields higher — something that is likely to be welcomed in the offices of the European Stability Mechanism.

Books were several times oversubscribed and new issue premiums often dropped to zero this week, ahead of an ECB move that was widely expected — but everybody is aware that market backlashes do happen.

Covered bond activity slowed this week with only three deals emerging, half the number seen in the prior week, with Canadian issuers at the fore.

France’s largest property firm, Unibail-Rodamco, issued a €1bn dual tranche bond on Wednesday that included only the third 20 year corporate bond in euros this year.

At a time when banks are desperate to lend to merger and acquisition deals, some key relationship banks have been reported missing from the $20bn loan for ChemChina’s takeover of Swiss seeds maker Syngenta. Robert Cooke and Elly Whittaker report.

BOC Aviation has made a successful landing with a new 10 year bond in 144A format, shrugging off concerns over its ownership change after a planned IPO this year.

The New Development Bank Brics (NDB) has appointed four Chinese banks and two internationals banks to work on a renminbi-denominated green bond to be sold to Chinese onshore buyers.