NatWest Markets
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NRW.Bank will bring a no-grow $1bn three year dollar benchmark on Wednesday, after African Development Bank and Rentenbank on Tuesday comfortably raised dollars in longer tenors.
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Swedish firm AR Packaging and French software firm Cegid both successfully allocated leveraged buyout loan packages this week — with the margins undisturbed by the UK's vote to leave the EU. -
The Bank of England cut the UK’s countercyclical buffer requirement with immediate effect on Tuesday, softening risks associated with payments on additional tier one (AT1) debt.
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The Bank of England cut the UK’s countercyclical buffer requirement with immediate effect on Tuesday, softening risks associated with payments on additional tier one (AT1) debt.
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British American Tobacco and Brown Forman gave the sterling corporate bond market a much needed boost on Thursday as both brought benchmark transactions to enthusiastic investors.
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Swedish sponsor EQT is set to syndicate €1.25bn of loans in July to fund its acquisition of German Bilfinger’s real estate business, in a market that has been led by German and French deals since the Brexit referendum.
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Norwegian renewable energy firm Statkraft has signed a Nkr11bn (€1.2bn) five year revolving credit facility with a group of banks.
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Manchester Airport Group, the UK airports company, has signed £560m of refinancing loan facilities after a recent bond issue.
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RPC Group, the UK plastic bottle manufacturer, has amended its £770m revolving credit facility agreement to include a £70m facility, which will part fund its acquisition of British Polythene Industries.
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Mexican cement manufacturer Cemex on Wednesday followed in fellow high yield issuer Braas Monier’s tracks with a significant tightening in pricing on its offer.
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Workspace Group, the UK real estate investment trust, has activated a one year extension option on its £150m revolving credit facility to extend the deal to 2021.
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Dave Rome, head of loan capital markets at Royal Bank of Scotland, resigned at the end of last week to join law firm Ashurst. The move follows RBS's reorganisation of its loans business, which limited the banker’s role, said a source at the UK bank.
