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LeasePlan, a leading fleet management firm, has placed a rare investor-led private medium term note in Czech koruna, while a French real estate company sold its largest ever MTN in Hong Kong dollars. -
Ethypharm, the French pharmaceuticals company, has allocated €287.5m of new loan facilities at a wider margin than it initially proposed.
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BBVA issued a €1.25bn five year covered bond on Tuesday that attracted an order book unequaled in size in the Cédulas market since July.
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South African media group Naspers has amended and extended a $2.25bn five year loan and increased it to $2.5bn.
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Rumours that the European Central Bank will add German regions to its public sector purchase programme fuelled demand for a State of Hessen benchmark on Thursday, said bankers.
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Azelis, the Antwerp-headquartered speciality chemicals distributor, will hold bank meetings in New York today (Friday) and in London on Monday for a $675m transatlantic acquisition loan.
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Debt bankers and analysts are expecting Saudi Arabia to tap the international markets for some $5bn in 2016, but BNP Paribas analysts warn that the sovereign entrance is going to hit the secondary levels of other Saudi borrowers.
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Global Blue, the Swiss tourist VAT refund company, held bank meetings on Wednesday for a €221m seven year term loan ‘C’ dividend recapitalisation loan.
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Swissport, the world’s largest air cargo handling company, met banks this week for €1bn-equivalent of new loans for its acquisition by HNA, a Chinese private equity firm.
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Vodafone has attracted a €2.5bn order book for a €750m five year bond, its first since negotiations over an asset swap with Liberty Global fell through.
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Goldman Sachs this week announced the closure of its dedicated BRIC (Brazil, Russia, China and India) fund after nearly 10 years. The move signalled the end of the BRIC era, as this year saw recessions plague Russia and Brazil while growth in China stalled.
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Continental Rubber of America, a wholly owned subsidiary of Germany's Continental, issued a €500m no-grow bond on Thursday, returning to the bond market after a two year gap.
