Nordea Markets
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Finnish commercial real estate company Citycon was the second Nordic borrower to print bonds in two weeks, following a three month spell when no corporate borrowers from the region came to the market. -
Chr. Hansen, the Danish bioscience company, has added two non-Nordic banks to its core syndicated loan in a €700m refinancing.
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A surfeit of supply hit the long end of the covered bond curve this week as issuers piled in to take advantage of extraordinarily cheap funding conditions that are unlikely to last long. Bill Thornhill reports.
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Hemso Fastighets and Galp Gas Natural Distribuiçao on Thursday mandated banks to issue bonds during the first two weeks of September.
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The gap to repay a €2.7bn bridge facility that supports HeidelbergCement's purchase of Italcementi is set to close once the former cashes in the sale of its West Virginia factory.
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Finnish paper and packaging group Powerflute picked two banks to refinance a €120m acquisition facility.
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Finnish crane manufacturer Konecranes has signed €1.5bn of loan facilities for its revised agreement to purchase a unit of US firm Terex.
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BC Partners sold a 7.8% stake in Com Hem, the Swedish cable TV operator and broadband provider, through an accelerated bookbuild led by Morgan Stanley on Monday night.
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Shares in SSAB, the Nordic steel producer, have risen by 11% since the company announced the completion of its oversubscribed Skr5bn ($599m) rights issue on Friday.
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Shares in BW Offshore, one of the world’s largest operators of floating oil production and storage vessels, traded up in Oslo on Monday after the company completed its Nkr847m ($101m) rights issue.
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Norwegian gas and oil shipping and storage company Stolt-Nielsen has agreed $325m of new debt arrangements with three of its relationship banks to fund the purchase of Jo Tankers' chemical tanker operations.
