Lloyds Bank

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Norway’s DNB Bank has increased what is only its second MTN in Hong Kong dollars, returning a day after it placed the original note.

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Proximus, the new name for Belgian telecoms company Belgacom, issued a €500m no-grow bond on Monday, achieving a high oversubscription for the deal.

Proximus, the new name for Belgian telecoms company Belgacom, issued a €500m no-grow bond on Monday and won high oversubscription.

Vitol held a bank meeting last week to refinance its flagship loans. The Swiss-headquartered firm will not increase the loan from $7.5bn, according to bankers.

Covered bond issuers have front loaded this week, printing €5.5bn in just two days via seven deals.

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Lloyds Bank was at the head of a stack of FIG trades that hit the market on Tuesday, despite European stocks diving again on poor manufacturing data from China.

The UK’s gargantuan £4.2bn infrastructure project, the Thames Tideway Tunnel, will delight institutional investors and bankers alike with as much as £2.8bn of rare inflation-linked bond issuance. Elly Whittaker reports.

Côte Restaurants, the UK chain of French-styled restaurants being bought out by BC Partners, has avoided general syndication and allocated a £138m leveraged loan with early bird lenders.

Lloyds Bank has strengthened its financial institutions business with a new hire.