Nomura
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Société Générale has hired Frances Cheung and Imtiaz Shefuddin to the bank’s cross-asset research team in Asia Pacific. -
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.
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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.
