Mizuho
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Rural Electrification Corp chose not to exercise the greenshoe option on its $230m five year borrowing, resulting in a huge scaleback for many of its lenders. -
Mizuho has hired another banker as part of its expansion in West Coast investment banking. The bank has been building out its tech team in its San Francisco office, but has now hired for healthcare investment banking as well.
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Invitations are out for a $500m three year borrowing for State Bank of India, which has lined up 13 lenders to lead the deal with the money funded in March.
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Ant Financial subsidiary Alipay (Hong Kong) Holding has launched a $3bn debut syndication via a nine-member bookrunner group. The strong showing at the top is driven by opportunities to cross-sell higher fee-generating products such as private banking, equity advisory and underwriting services to the Alibaba Group-affiliated borrower, reports Shruti Chaturvedi.
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Kuwait National Petroleum Co has signed another $1bn loan, after borrowing $4bn in a syndicated facility launched last month, to finance its “clean fuels” project.
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Nine mandated lead arrangers and bookrunners have invited lenders to join the international loan market debut of Ant Financial subsidiary, Alipay (Hong Kong) Holding. The money will partly be used to support Ant’s bid to acquire MoneyGram.
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CK Hutchison Holdings, through CK Hutchison International (17), raised $1.8bn across two tranches on Thursday while competing with seven other issuers in the busy Asia debt market.
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Nets, the largest Scandinavian payments processor, priced its first euro bond on Thursday amid keen demand for top rated high yield paper that is leading to low coupons.
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Hyundai Capital America seized on Asian investor liquidity to close a $1.1bn deal across three tranches, including a floating rate note, on Wednesday.
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Issuers from Greater China are dominating the dollar debt market, as they vie for investor attention on Thursday alongside a couple of south and southeast Asian names.
