Mizuho

Indonesia Eximbank has finalised allocations for its loan, increasing the size of the deal with the inclusion of a short-dated tranche that brought some rare lenders into the syndication.

Hearing whispers of an expanded MTN team at Mizuho, Leak was straight on the phone to Giso van Loon, the firm's MTN chief. However, things were not as straightforward as we had hoped.

Korea Exchange Bank took full advantage of investor appetite for Korean bonds and jumped on the tailwind of the sovereign to price a new five year inside its existing curve.

Indonesia Eximbank is looking to increase the size of its fundraising to close to $800m after receiving a positive response from the market in syndication, according to a banker working on the transaction.

Mizuho International is making a push in European fixed income sales and trading, even as much larger players in the business such as Barclays are cutting back. The bank has made a string of senior hires, and Yasuhiro Shibata, the bank’s head of fixed income in Tokyo, has moved to London to become deputy president and head of global markets EMEA.

British Telecommunications broke its long abstinence from the European bond markets on Tuesday, with a €1bn deal that was as enthusiastically received as bankers had long predicted the issuer’s return would be.

India’s Power Finance Corp has mandated three banks for a $250m five year fundraising, which has been in the works since the start of the year.

BP, the UK oil company, issued a $300m Eurodollar medium term note via Mizuho on Tuesday, in a follow-up to its $550m public Eurodollar issue on May 13.

Andrew Jarman, who was European head of high yield credit trading at Deutsche Bank, has joined Mizuho in the same role as part of the firm's build out in leveraged products, writes Hazel Sheffield.

Spanish funeral services firm Grupo Memora has mandated three banks to arranged a €247.4m loan.

The international arm of Taiwan’s Chailease Finance is tipped to mandate three banks for its latest fundraising of $120m, according to a banker.

The mandated lead arranger and bookrunner group for Philippine shopping mall operator SM Prime Holdings’ $300m fundraising has expanded, with seven banks now at the top level.