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Demand for riskiest tranches and improved loan supply could support growth in issuance
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Wendel, the BB+ rated French investment group, sold its first bond of the year tightly on Monday, on a book of over €3bn.
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Dim sum supply has had an explosive start to the year, with a torrent of deals from on and offshore issuers taking supply to four times what it was in the first two weeks of last year’s record six month run. But even more impressive is the appetite for yield, exemplified by Trade and Development Bank of Mongolia’s debut in the currency, which despite modest size signals the extent to which dim sum boasts a thriving high yield segment absent in any other Asian currency bond market, writes Steve Gilmore.
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Consolidation of Taiwanese banks has been put back on the table after the ministry of finance asked Mega Financial Holding Company to assess the feasibility of it acquiring other state-owned banks, writes Rashmi Kumar. Restructuring the banking sector has been broached many times as a way to ease fierce domestic competition, and stabilise loan pricing, but market watchers not only think the plans are unlikely to be fruitful, but will not make things any better for banks even if they do happen.
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The main concern for many a loans banker in 2013 was the prospect of tapering in the US. But this year, the Federal Reserve’s plans to slow its quantitative easing policy seem to be only marginally on people’s minds.
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Power Assets Holdings signed its jumbo HK$37bn ($4.7bn) three year loan last Friday, as part of the financing of its spin-off IPO of Hong Kong Electric Investments, which is now underway.
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Hong Kong’s Yue Xiu Enterprises is seeking a $900m dual-tranche loan, appointing DBS as the co-ordinator, as it looks to take out the $1bn acquisition-related bridge signed last year.