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India's Bajaj Finance has hired banks to run a potential qualified institutional placement (QIP) of around $1bn, according to a source familiar with the matter. -
Bank of Ireland was unable to complete the sale of a tier two transaction this week, after the UK Parliament descended in chaos. Bond buyers have by and large taken a pragmatic approach during Brexit negotiations, but market participants said that on this occasion the Irish issuer had “misjudged” how nervous investors were, writes David Freitas.
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FIG bond bankers are worried, as one put it, that “the steam is coming out of the Kangaroo market” after Thursday’s additional tier 1 (AT1) deal from Société Générale failed to reach the heights of deals from UBS and BNP Paribas earlier in the summer.
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JP Morgan has hired Nomura’s Ryan Dawson as a managing director in its leveraged finance origination team, covering sponsors in EMEA and sponsors and corporates in the UK.
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The dollar SSA market burst into life on Tuesday, but some bankers say that the tight spreads and low yields on offer mean there is little guarantee any of the trades will be easy.
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French bank BPCE has mandated lead managers for a potential five year senior preferred deal in the Australian dollar market — its first this year in the currency.
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BMO Capital Markets’ SSA banker Lindsay Wortzman is transferring to Toronto, and to replace her the London team have picked up Samantha Cook from Nomura.
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SSA dollar deals printed this week ground tighter in the secondary market on Thursday, despite the notes coming within a hair’s width of US sovereign debt.
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Following what a banker on Wednesday's euro bond called the ‘richest syndication of all time’, the Republic of Finland is looking at a possible return to the dollar market.
