JP Morgan
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UBS has hired Brian Smith as country head for South Africa and head of investment banking for sub-Saharan Africa.
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A senior emerging markets banker has quit BNP Paribas to move to JP Morgan. -
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Emaar Misr for Development, the Egyptian property developer, on Thursday released the price range for its initial public offering in Cairo, which values the firm at the mid-point at about E£17.9bn ($2.35bn).
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The Egyptian sovereign, although beset by economic and political challenges, still drew hundreds of investors into a $1.5bn 10 year bond on Thursday — marking a triumphant return to the public bond market after a five year absence.
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The Gabonese Republic and MFB Hungarian Development Bank have little in common, other than being the best prospects to break the Middle East’s dominance of the CEEMEA benchmark market.
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Extreme swings in European government bond yields rocked markets this week, but worse could be yet to come.
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Leveraged finance investors have claimed a victory against borrowers by forcing Valeo Foods to back down on aggressive transferability restrictions that pushed their patience too far in an already hot market, Ross Lancaster reports.
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PizzaExpress, the largest UK casual dining restaurant operator, priced on Tuesday a £55m tap of its senior secured bond to fund the purchase of 28 franchise businesses in China and Hong Kong.
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Bank of Sharjah priced its first international bond deal on Monday, while National Bank of Abu Dhabi and Drake & Scull International added their names to the Middle East pipeline. But there are signs the run of Middle East deals is leading to fatigue in the conventional market.
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XPO Logistics, the US transport logistics company, wants to issue a $2bn-equivalent four tranche bond to fund its acquisition of Norbert Dentressangle, the French trucking group.
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Dell, the US personal computer maker, has closed books on a loan repricing and will increase the deal, although investors put the brakes on a full repricing.
