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Constantia Flexibles, the Austrian food packaging company, is marketing a €1.3bn loan to lenders at a London bank meeting this Monday. -
Hong Kong’s second largest broadband internet provider, HKBN, has started gauging investors’ appetite for its IPO of around $600m, with the company’s strong credentials and large market share in the city expected to play a big role in wooing investors.
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Mitsubishi UFJ Lease & Finance Company has mandated banks to arrange a series of investor meetings that may lead to a US dollar Reg S bond.
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HDFC Bank raised Rp98.7bn ($1.6bn) in new equity from a simultaneous follow-on of American Depositary Shares (ADS) and a qualified institutional placement (QIP) on Thursday, as funds bet on the stock as one of the best proxies to India’s growth.
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There were finally some signs of life in the offshore renminbi (dim sum) bond market this week, with a pair of Chinese names mandating banks for new deals.
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LatAm DCM bankers were surprised and impressed that Argentine oil company YPF raised $500m of new debt this week with the sovereign default unresolved and oil prices falling. But the smaller than planned size and hefty new issue premium mean few are expecting a burst of new issue activity from the country, despite the City of Buenos Aires preparing to meet investors.
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HSS Hire Group, the UK tool hire business, regained its IPO price by the end of its first day’s trading on the London Stock Exchange on Wednesday, after pricing its £114m flotation at the bottom end of the price range a day before.
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Things just keep getting better for British Telecom. The fixed line incumbent’s shares soared 4.5% on Thursday after it announced final details of its £12.5bn takeover of EE, the UK’s largest and most advanced mobile phone company.
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Santander was able to benefit from a strong bid for paper from the eurozone’s periphery this week, drawing a strong order book for a deal through its Santander Consumer Finance Subsidiary — bankers pointed to a more reassuring political situation in Greece as a reason to expect more deals from the region in the coming weeks. Meanwhile, Nordea was also able to appeal to investors with the first Scandinavian senior print of 2015.
