Nomura
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Bankers and funding officials this week might have been tempted to strap on a blindfold at points during the execution of the only dollar benchmark in a fortnight.
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Municipality Finance brought the first dollar benchmark since a big sell-off in Chinese equities on August 24 sparked volatility in global equity and credit markets, roiling issuance conditions for public sector borrowers in dollars.
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Portugal attracted more than €5.5bn of demand for the first syndicated deal from a peripheral sovereign since mid-June on Wednesday. -
A eurozone agency is set to brave a dollar market that suffered volatility last week. And despite improved conditions, the issuer opted for a conservative maturity.
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Portugal will become the first eurozone periphery sovereign to test the post-summer syndication market — but its choice of tenor has been limited by several weeks of turmoil in global markets.
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Nomura has appointed Chee Pin Lee as the head of financial products and solutions for wealth management, Asia ex-Japan, in what is a newly created role at the bank.
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KfW showed public sector issuers exactly what it takes to get euro investors reaching into their pockets this week — a hefty new issue premium, writes Tessa Wilkie.
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Nomura’s cuts to its global markets division have spread further, as senior bankers and traders have returned from holidays to find their positions at risk of redundancy.
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Nomura has added its head of flow rates and SSA trading — a veteran of the firm of almost 30 years — to the cuts announced two weeks ago.
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There was a tense finish to the Indian government’s Rp93.96bn ($1.42bn) divestment of its stake in Indian Oil Corp (IOC), with books only covered just before the transaction was due to close thanks to late bids from state-owned insurers.
