Loans and High Yield

China Aoyuan Group has received a $162m-equivalent three year secured loan from four lenders.

Indian metals and mining company Vedanta Resources courted the market on Thursday for its first bond since delisting from the London Stock Exchange late last year. While the delisting raised some questions for investors, the deal ultimately pulled in $1bn for the issuer.

Peking University Founder Group Co has raised $300m from an ultra-tight bond.

Hong Kong oil trading business Winson Group is paying up for an up to $180m secured revolving credit facility.

Italmatch, a chemical additives company owned by Bain Capital, has announced a €200m add-on to its €410m senior secured floating rate note, to repay the acquisition debt it took on to buy BWA Water Additives.

The creditworthiness of corporate borrowers in advanced economies has deteriorated while the volume of debt and financial risk taking has risen, the International Monetary Fund has warned. It also flagged up concerns about the sovereign-bank nexus in the eurozone and about market conditions for low income and frontier countries.

Diamond hires ex-colleague at Atlas — Salorio leaves DCM head vacancy at Soc Gen — Forese to retire from Citi

Ineos, with a split high yield/investment grade rating, announced a drive-by €770m seven year non-call three bond issue on Monday, refinancing its 4% 2023 bond of the same size.

Société Générale has appointed Demetrio Salorio, its global head of debt capital markets, as UK head of global finance, replacing Alvaro Huete.

Carmignac Gestion is launching an unconstrained credit fund, to be managed by Pierre Verlé and Alexandre Deneuville, both managers with high yield experience.

German defence firm Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) has signed a €350m loan, amid a wave of mid-market activity in the European loan market.

Banks are marketing the €550m acquisition loan for CVC’s take-private of French insurance broker April, led by Deutsche Bank as sole physical bookrunner.