Nomura
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Lixil, the Japanese group that makes bathroom fittings and other building products, today repurchased 7.372m shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, using part of the money it raised yesterday with a ¥120bn (€892m) convertible bond issue. -
Lixil, the Japanese companies that makes bathroom fittings and other building products, today raised ¥120bn (€892m) through the international sale of two convertible bonds of equal size, which were more than twice oversubscribed.
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Société Générale has hired Frances Cheung and Imtiaz Shefuddin to the bank’s cross-asset research team in Asia Pacific.
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Emirates NBD is on track to price the longest Kangaroo bond from a Gulf bank and is marketing a seven year at 225bp over mid-swaps. The bank is keen to establish its presence in the Aussie dollar market, according to bankers.
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Nomura has hired Yang Zhao and Sophie Jiang into the bank’s research department as part of an continued effort to enhance its Asia research platform.
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SIG Combibloc has followed Altice's recent example by demonstrating the European market’s keen appetite for large leveraged M&A deals. SIG has tightened pricing on the loans in its €2.8bn deal and replaced some of the deal's bonds with loans.
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The European high yield market on Tuesday keenly accepted the first triple-C rated deals of the year: a buyout financing bond from Swiss carton maker SIG Combibloc and a refinancing issue for Norske Skog, the paper company.
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SIG Combibloc has followed Altice's recent example by demonstrating the European market’s keen appetite for large leveraged M&A deals. SIG has tightened pricing on the loans in its €2.8bn deal and replaced some of the deal's bonds with loans.
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Altice on January 30 achieved a successful sale for its €4.8bn-equivalent bond package backing its takeover of Portugal Telecom.
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Nomura reported a sharp decline in investment banking revenues and profits for the final quarter of 2014 — the third quarter of the bank’s 2014/2015 fiscal year — on Thursday. The Japanese bank suffered from plummeting revenues in its fixed income business, particularly in EMEA and the Americas.
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The UK is set to price a tap of its March 2058 inflation linked Gilt on Wednesday, while investors suggested that the case for a new type of inflation linked bond is growing stronger.
