Mizuho
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United Asia Finance, a personal loan provider in Hong Kong, is making a quick return for a HK$1.6bn ($203m) term loan, just two months after sealing its last borrowing. -
Turkey’s Vakifbank has signed a dual tranche loan totalling $1.3bn-equivalent, in line with its domestic rivals, despite Moody’s taking the axe to the bank’s ratings last month.
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Beijing Enterprises Water Group (BEWG) raised $500m on Tuesday to retire a bond maturing in May, finding support from investors despite the numerous unrated state-owned options available to them.
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More than €3.5bn of high yield bond deals in euros, sterling and dollars were scheduled to close this week. Although some bankers described the pipeline as “crowded”, they expected market digestion to be ‘healthy’ ahead of quieter times.
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Vietnam’s Nghi Son 2 Power, which counts Japanese trading and investment conglomerate Marubeni Corp as one of its investors, has raised a $1.869bn project loan from a group of mainly Japanese lenders.
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Reliance Jio Infocomm, the mobile network operator controlled by India’s Reliance Industries, has raised ¥53.5bn ($498m), the largest Samurai loan for an Asian corporation.
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After selling €4.6bn of loans in March, Unilever Spreads unveiled the €1bn high yield bond portion of its leveraged buyout funding package on Wednesday. But as well as jumbo deals, other borrowers with smaller offerings are also vying for investor attention.
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China’s Guangzhou R&F Properties Co, the once troubled China Hongqiao Group and a local government-owned entity in Xinjiang all managed to pull off new dollar bonds on Tuesday, albeit with some difficulty.
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Philippine conglomerate San Miguel Corp and its power unit SMC Global Power are jointly seeking a $1.1bn loan to finance a $1.9bn acquisition of a power plant in the country.
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Christian Heiberg, Mizuho International's EMEA head of fixed income trading, has left the bank as part of a broader review of the firm's global markets business.
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The International Development Association, part of the World Bank Group, is on screens with its debut bond issue. The trade is offering a handful of basis points over seasoned World Bank Group issuer the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (known as World Bank), according to bankers away from the mandate.
