Mizuho
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China Citic Bank Corp rolled out a four-tranche transaction on Thursday after a roadshow spanning Hong Kong, Singapore and London. Meanwhile, India’s ICICI Bank is marketing a 10 year bullet through its Dubai branch.
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Mizuho has laid off three people in its high yield team, two in sales and one in trading.
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India’s Rural Electrification Corp is one of the few non-Chinese issuers laying the groundwork for a new dollar bond before the end of the year.
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CPF Investment, a unit of Thai firm Charoen Pokphand Foods (CPF), has approached the syndicated loan market for a $625m borrowing.
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A handful of Chinese issuers are set to go on roadshows next week to gauge investor interest for their offshore bonds.
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Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) and a syndicate of lenders have provided a $2.73bn loan to finance the construction of a railway and upgrade a port in Mozambique, which will ensure the long term supply of coal to Japan from the African country.
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Lead banks have scheduled a December date for the syndication of a €3bn equivalent multicurrency loan package that is supporting PAI and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation’s leveraged buyout of bottling company Refresco.
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As fund managers fill their pockets with corporate leveraged finance debt, borrowers like BMC Software are taking advantage of strong conditions to slash funding costs across their financial structure.
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The three corporate bond issuers who sold new issues in euros on Tuesday offered something short, something intermediate and something long. The shorter tranches benefitted from the most interest.
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China Construction Bank Corp and Bank of Communications Co snapped up investors on Monday when they offered up multiple tranches of floating rate dollar bonds through their Hong Kong branches.
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The leveraged loan market is approaching Christmas on course to beat last year’s issuance, particularly for financing of new buyouts.
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The Republic of Turkey is planning to use yen to round off its funding for the year, and has named three leads to arrange the deal.