Loans and High Yield

BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole, Natixis and Société Générale are preparing to syndicate the debt funding Xavier Niel’s innovative deal to increase his stake in Iliad, the French telecoms firm he controls, in the new year.

Singapore-based aircraft leasing company Avation has obtained a green loan to support its purchase of aircraft.

More dollar bonds from Vietnam will come to the market in 2020, despite ratings agency Moody’s changing the government’s outlook to negative this week.

Enagas, the Spanish natural gas transmission company, raised €500m of new capital market on Wednesday night to help fund its acquisition of a stake in US firm Tallgrass Energy.

Bond investors are set to start the new year with some trepidation, due to uncertainty around the US-China trade relationship and rising defaults in the Mainland. While there will be opportunities, not all issuers will have easy access to liquidity as buyers turn selective.

Debt bankers and investors focused on Indonesia are eager to put the year behind them, after elections and a big dollar bond default dented issuance volumes. But they are optimistic about 2020, believing that the southeast Asian country could live up to its potential as a hotbed of high yield borrowing. Morgan Davis reports.

In part three of GlobalCapital Asia's awards results announcements, we reveal the winning bond deals across a variety of categories. In addition, we also name the Best G3 Bond House, Best High Yield Bond House and the winner of the Best House for SRI Financing.

A €200m bond add-on for UK-based car maker Jaguar Land Rover, announced on Tuesday, follows €800m of unsecured notes issued in mid-November. Jaguar was drawn to a balmy post-election market that rewarded it with favourable pricing and encouraged it to increase the deal.

Shares in Corestate Capital, the Luxembourg property company, rose rapidly in trading on Tuesday after founder Ralph Winter had sold a 14.1% stake in a €96.6m block trade on Monday night that was allocated to a small number of investors.

Retail investors who bought two minibond issues from Chilango, a London-based Mexican food chain, are set to lose their money, with either a 90% writedown or debt-for-equity swap heading their way. This was grimly predictable, based on a cursory glance at the deal documents, but the issue shows how messed up our investor protection rules are.

Fidelity, the US asset manager, warned the European Securities and Markets Authority that Europe’s Market Abuse Regulation lacks clarity, and that even public side information on leveraged loans could potentially contain material non-public information.

HSBC has named two bankers as global co-heads of its debt capital markets team, replacing Jean-Marc Mercier. It is also planning to open two new desks.