Nomura
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French lender BPCE sold the second ever Basel III compliant subordinated Samurai deal on Friday, pricing a triple tranche ¥48.3bn ($409.8m) trade. The new format allowed the issuer to diversify its Japanese following, drawing in many investors which do not traditionally participate in senior unsecured transactions.
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One of the most anticipated high yield bond issues of the year so far, Altice’s transaction to refinance its buyout of Portugal Telecom, is set to be priced today (Friday), and bankers believe it will confirm the market's vigorous health at the start of 2015.
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SIG Combibloc, the Swiss drinks carton maker, has launched the long-awaited €2.265bn loan backing its acquisition by Onex, in the largest European leveraged takeover financing of the year so far.
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The loan portion of Liberty Global’s refinancing exercise has been reduced to around €690m, after lenders’ reluctance to roll into its merging Dutch subsidiary led the company to issue an €800m bond through Ziggo, one of the merging companies.
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Five covered bond borrowers issued benchmark deals in the first half of this week, fearing potential volatility from Thursday's European Central Bank announcement on its sovereign quantitative easing programme.
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The loan portion of Liberty Global’s refinancing exercise has been reduced to around €690m, after lenders’ reluctance to roll into its merging Dutch subsidiary led the company to issue an €800m bond through Ziggo, one of the merging companies.
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SIG Combibloc, the Swiss drinks carton maker, has launched the long-awaited €2.265bn loan backing its acquisition by Onex, the largest European leveraged takeover financing of the year so far.
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The covered bond market enjoyed its busiest week in the last three years as 16 borrowers launched benchmarks with a nominal value of €13.5bn ($15.70bn) across a range of currencies and tenors. But investors clearly showed a preference for the seven year — of which there were seven deals, accounting for half of this week’s supply.
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Liberty Global, the European cable investment group, on Tuesday laid out to lenders the terms of a complex refinancing process which will combine the debt of two merging Dutch subsidiaries, UPC Netherlands and Ziggo.