Nomura
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It was a week of firsts for the socially responsible investment sector, with several issuers bringing innovations or printing record sized deals.
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Japan Post Holdings has priced its IPO at the top of the range to raise ¥693bn ($5.78bn), as the country’s government finds big success with its simultaneous triple listing. -
Nomura highlighted the strength of its sovereign, supranational and agency debt business in its second quarter results, reported on Wednesday, despite recent senior level cuts in its primary debt business.
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Republic of Cyprus completed a rare combined syndication and switch offer on Tuesday with 40% of the new issue going to existing bond holders.
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Republic of Cyprus is on track to price a rare combined syndication and switch offer. The deal will allow Cyprus to tidy up the short end of its curve while issuing a fresh 10 year note.
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Inter-American Development Bank has sold a three tranche Uridashi from its Education, Youth and Employment (EYE) bond programme.
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Golden Meditech has closed its HK$985.70m ($127.19m) rights issue with shareholders taking up just 69% of the transaction, forcing its underwriter to absorb the remaining shares.
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Covered bonds issued this week from banks in Italy and Portugal were a roaring success from the sellers’ point of view. But none could have been done without the European Central Bank’s help.
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The London branch of the Japanese firm has put two bankers ‘at risk,’ one of whom had been actively involved in emerging markets, covered bonds and SSA syndicate.
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Westpac has appointed Sneha Sanghvi as its new head of financial markets for Asia, replacing Michael Bass who is relocating to the bank’s London office.
