Ireland

Ireland’s Keywords Studios has signed a new revolving credit facility of up to €140m, increasing its bank line as the video games studio remains on the hunt for acquisitions.

Unipharm, the Irish healthcare services company, has managed to successfully price its €136m IPO in London and Dublin, despite price sensitivity among investors leading to the cancellation of two significant IPOs last week.

Bank of Ireland (BoI) launched a senior bond through its holding company on Monday. The five year non-call four notes drew a large subscription level in the FIG market, almost six times their final size of €600m.

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Ireland is focused on broadening its approach to bond issuance, and will look to sell its first benchmark inflation-linked trade "in the coming years', following its successful second privately-placed linker in March.

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Ireland set a new order book record when it issued a curve-extending long 30 year bond on Thursday.

Ireland appointed banks on Tuesday for its second syndicated bond of the year, which will extend its euro benchmark curve to 2050 (31 years).

Kingspan, an Irish insulation company, has made a €700m offer for two units of Belgium’s Recticel, but will sell one of them if the deal goes ahead.

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A trio sovereigns went to the MTN market over the past week, including Italy, which issued a yen bond for the first time since 2009. The deal, led by Nomura, was also its first issue in a foreign currency since 2010.

Ireland is eyeing a benchmark linker after a successful private placement on Tuesday.