NatWest Markets
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The UK’s TransferWise has signed a £65m revolving credit facility, as the cross border money transfer company looks to fund future growth. -
The Netherland’s AVR has signed a €100m sustainable credit facility, with the waste to energy company pushing out maturities to up to seven years.
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Private equity firm Antin Infrastructure Partners has signed €673m of debt facilities to back its acquisition of French energy infrastructure and services company Idex.
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Ireland’s Applegreen has signed €300m of loans to finance its acquisition of more than half of motorway service operator Welcome Break, topping off a fund raising round that also saw a share placement.
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The trading platform provider Liquidnet announced today that it has added emerging market bonds to its institutional fixed income trading platform. To support the additional breadth of its offering, the company has hired two former bankers to its fixed income teams.
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A megayacht of a trade from KfW this week suggested that potential headwinds — including the end of quantitative easing, Italy’s reckoning with the European Commission and Angela Merkel’s plan to step away from politics — are failing to sink sentiment in the euro market. But some SSA bankers warned that the trade was more just proof that KfW can float in these conditions — and that an upcoming deal for the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) will be a better buoy for the sector’s currents.
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KfW received a final book of over €12bn for a five year euro benchmark on Tuesday, while the City of Hamburg closed out its funding for the year with its longest outstanding bond. Finnvera will add to the euro SSA supply this week, after mandating banks for a short 10 year that is likely to be its final syndication of the year.
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KfW mandated banks on Monday for the first euro benchmark in the public sector market from a supranational or agency in two weeks.
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Dutch airport owner and operator Royal Schiphol Group launched a green bond this week to fund clean buildings and transportation, after announcing the trade two weeks ago.
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NatWest has become the first bank to integrate with a new blockchain-based platform that the UK lender says will “dramatically transform and streamline” the £3.5tr global syndicated loans market.
