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French toll road operator Holding d'Infrastructures de Transport paid a hefty premium on Friday as it sold a dual tranche bond to help refinance its March 2018 note. -
Elis, the French laundry group, has raised €600m from 12 banks, in part to pay off the bridge facility it used to acquire UK rival Berendsen in the summer.
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Credit Suisse has seen several senior departures from its Asian equities business, with Nicole Yuen and Ronald Cheung leaving the bank.
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Natixis has boosted its distribution capabilities in southeast Asia by bringing in a former BNP Paribas loans banker.
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CVC and Ardian charged up the leveraged loan deal pipeline with new buyouts of European businesses in Ireland, Greece and Spain this week. A strengthening European economy is likely to attract more, said market participants.
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The European high yield bond pipeline was stuffed with an array of mainly sub-benchmark deals this week, after issuance volume hit a historic high.
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Nederlandse Waterschapsbank (NWB) launched a four year green bond on Tuesday, pricing flat to its curve and clearing the way for Agence Française de Développement (AFD) to attempt to emulate the Dutch agency’s success.
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Saudi Electricity Co’s $1.75bn loan has been successfully sold down to four other banks.
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Wind Tre, the Italian telecoms group, delivered Europe's largest ever high yield bond issue this week, a €7.3bn deal that has raised the bar for the market and led to expectations that more sponsors will follow suit amid heady investor demand.
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Floating rate investors were not left behind in Monday’s glut of issuance. RCI Banque, the Baa1/BBB rated car financing subsidiary of Renault, brought a seven year floater, sized at €500m no-grow.
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Agence Française de Développement has placed a €205m clip maturing in 2037, exceeding the length of its previous longest trade in the currency by five years.
