NatWest Markets

SIG, a Sheffield-based specialist building products company, has refinanced a £250m revolving credit facility that was due to mature in May 2015.

Enterprise Inns, the UK pub group, priced £249.521m of senior secured high yield bonds on Tuesday to yield 6%, as part of a liability management exercise.

Jez Walsh has left Royal Bank of Scotland where he had been in charge of covered bond syndication for 15 years. His departure follows Allen Rad who had traded covered bonds since 2008 and Christoph Anhamm who had been in charge of covered bond origination.

Wesfarmers, the diversified Australian retail, chemicals, energy and insurance group, attracted a €1.2bn book for its seven year bond on Tuesday, allowing it to increase the size from an expected €500m to €600m while still paying a new issue premium of 5bp or less.

RBS has laid out plans for its European loans business, outlining the management structure working for head of loan markets and client management Dave Rome.

Five lenders have committed to join Indian company Rural Electrification Corp’s $170m loan. The transaction is the greenshoe portion of a larger borrowing. Funds for the original $230m have already been provided by the six bookrunners and mandated lead arrangers, which are syndicating the greenshoe on a best efforts basis.

European credit markets had a nasty turn today, which salespeople and analysts blamed on news that Bill Gross, the so-called ‘bond king’, had decided to leave Pimco, the world’s biggest bond investor. Yet Babcock International, the UK engineering services group, still managed to issue a €550m bond – its first in the European market, according to Dealogic.

Suncorp-Metway opened books for a sterling FRN on Monday morning, hoping to tap into demand for floating rate notes from investors anticipating a rates hike at the Bank of England in the near future. While a similar deal from Westpac New Zealand sold well last week, bankers away from the deal were concerned that a weaker rating could hurt Suncorp’s chances.

The expected wave of merger and acquisition financings broke on the US corporate bond market this week, as Roche and Sysco made triumphant returns while Suntory Holdings issued its first US bond.

RBS lays out DCM management — BAML loses Russia DCM head — Credit structurer quits UBS — New IB head at BNPP

Tuesday had been a slippery day in the European corporate bond market, as a fall in equities caused two new issues to find underwhelming demand – a knock-on effect that has not happened for a long time. But by Thursday that was all forgotten. Four deals were launched, three of them triple-B rated and three of them 10 years, and all went well.

Tuesday had been a slippery day in the European corporate bond market, as a fall in equities caused two new issues to find underwhelming demand — a knock-on effect that has not happened for a long time. But by Thursday that was all forgotten. Four deals were launched, three of them triple-B rated and three of them 10 years, and all went well.