JP Morgan

Aston Martin, the UK luxury car maker, made savings of up to 400bp on Friday as it wrapped up its latest bond refinancing bond. Investors came along for the ride but found it a bit of a squeeze.

Micro Focus, the UK legacy software firm, has launched the $5bn loan to finance its acquisition of Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s software business — the biggest new money loan in the European leveraged loan market this year.

The dollar market for bank and financial issuance has recorded its first week of zero supply in 2017, but still smashed records for the busiest quarter of all time.

Guarantor: Kingdom of Spain

Electricité de France’s €4.018bn three-for-10 rights issue has been oversubscribed, despite the continuing alarming flow of headlines about the nuclear power industry, and the approach of a French presidential election that could bring the far right to power.

Instituto de Crédito Oficial brought some rare short dated euro paper this week and was able to rely on heavy support outside the bank community — despite some people on and off the deal expecting banks to buy the deal in bulk.

Shares in BioPharma Credit, the UK closed end investment fund focused on the debt of life sciences companies, closed 2.9% above their IPO price on Thursday when they started trading in London on Thursday after the company finished its $762m IPO.

Turkey’s six year sovereign sukuk is expected to be priced flat, or even inside, its conventional curve for the first time following the asset class's inclusion in the JP Morgan indices, even as the country's president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s bid to consolidate power grabs the headlines.

Gates Global, the US power transmission belt maker, rescheduled commitments for a euro term loan add-on to Thursday, after increasing it by nearly €200m from around €275m. The move came in a week when JP Morgan analysts and others voiced concern about risks in the leveraged finance market.

ICBC Financial Leasing Co brought home $2bn from its latest dual tranche deal on Wednesday, hitting its regulatory cap and meeting its pricing goals.

Credit Bank of Moscow reopened the new style tier two market for Russian issuers in style on Wednesday with a $600m deal that was five times subscribed.

Gazprom went for size with its sterling market return on Wednesday, pricing the second largest deal ever in the currency from an emerging markets borrower.