Nomura
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Bpifrance Financement became this week’s third French public sector issuer on Thursday, scoring €500m with a tap. -
South Korea’s Lotte Chemical Corp has netted W215.0bn ($187.9m) after pricing a block sale of treasury shares near the middle of guidance, according to a term sheet seen by GlobalCapital Asia.
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Lotte Chemical Corp is looking to raise up to W223.7bn ($195.0m) through the sale of a block of treasury shares, according to a banker familiar with the matter.
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Nomura has hired two bankers into its investment banking division, a new head of investment banking for Italy and a FIG coverage banker.
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Nationwide Building Society this week issued its first euro benchmark covered bond since the UK’s referendum on leaving Europe and managed to find funding that was two years longer and half the spread of its last deal in February 2016. But it was unable to issue a 15 year.
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Reliance Infrastructure has begun gauging investor appetite for a potential Rp30bn ($448.1m) IPO of its infrastructure investment trust, according to a banker familiar with the matter.
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Fewer investors than is normal bought Stadshypotek’s seven year covered bond on Tuesday. However, although the deal had virtually no new issue concession, it was nevertheless well subscribed.
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Nomura has appointed two to its emerging markets sales team as it attempts to grow its business.
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Indian telecom hardware company Tejas Networks is just a few steps away from its IPO, having filed a draft prospectus with the market regulator more than eight years after first proposing the idea of going public.
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The prospect of a far-right leader becoming president of France rocked government bond markets this week. It led to a rare pulled French agency deal and will cause the country’s banks problems with their own huge funding needs. But as other issuers in eurozone countries facing elections showed, the picture of the risks ahead is complicated. Craig McGlashan reports.
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Most of Asia's equity capital markets were still waking up from the post-holiday slumber this week but bankers in India were on their toes, with IPO activity in the country continuing apace.
