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Nomura

  • Rating: Aaa/AAA
  • The sterling market had a healthy opening week in the public sector with three deals raising a combined £1.9bn, and there is plenty more in the pipeline, according to syndicate bankers.
  • The dollar market has been thoroughly supportive of this week’s SSA borrowers, but none more so than Sweden, which pulled in its biggest order book ever for its first deal of 2018.
  • Standard Chartered has brought a former banker at Citi out of retirement to run its Greater China and North Asian business.
  • When the shadowy figure known as Satoshi Nakamoto launched bitcoin in 2009, few predicted that the technology underpinning it would, in a few short years, be hailed as an invention as important as the internet. Capital markets are on the front line for disruption, writes Lewis McLellan.
  • SSA
    The dollar market is poised to get off to a flying start to the year in the Nordic region, which hosts all three of this week's scheduled dollar borrowers.
  • Ireland opened 2018 with a €4bn print deemed “spectacular” by a banker away from the deal, who said that it was priced flat to the sovereign’s curve.
  • A pair of public sector borrowers blew away the cobwebs in the sterling market on Wednesday, printing a combined £1.5bn.
  • SSA
    Ireland is set to become the first SSA borrower of 2018 to print a syndicated bond, picking banks for a benchmark deal to be sold on Wednesday. The German state of Lower Saxony will also come to market on Wednesday.
  • Nomura has hired Nihal Elkafrawi as head of client coverage for the Middle East and north Africa. She will foster cross-selling opportunities for global markets and investment banking, the bank said in a statement.
  • European Central Bank president Mario Draghi struck an upbeat note on the currency bloc’s growth prospects at a press conference following a governing council meeting on Thursday, but analysts still expect borrowers to enjoy supportive conditions for some time yet. The meeting — and the approaching year end — meant euro supply was thin on the ground, but Iceland did take the opportunity to return after several years away.
  • Rating: A3/A/A