North America

Luckin Coffee has raised $561m from its Nasdaq listing after boosting the size of the original American Depository Shares (ADS) offer and closing the deal a day early, according to a banker on the mandate.

DCM bankers said they were sitting on mandates for Latin American bond issuers as another week of volatility in global markets kept the region’s primary markets quiet.

Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), the US financial software company, honoured Europe’s bond markets this week with the lion’s share of the debt financing for its takeover of Worldpay, the payments group that began as part of Royal Bank of Scotland, for an enterprise value of $43bn.

The dollar corporate bond market showed its resilience this week as issuance rebounded, despite the US-China trade turmoil. “Trump, Trump, Trump,” was how one syndicate manager explained the reasons for the return of volatility as high grade credit markets see-sawed with the President’s mood swings.

HSBC led a surge in dollar bond supply as high-grade banks sprang back into issuance mode after a two-week layoff.

Europe's equity capital markets are heading for a crunch. Companies are set to launch a batch of IPOs so they price before investors disappear for the summer. But escalating trade tensions between China and the US threaten to rob them of their chance, writes Sam Kerr.

Equity investors who base their trading on the daily news flow emanating from the US and China, are going to have to accept the possibility that the relationship between the two countries will sour.

Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) went to market today to issue a six-tranche euro and a two tranche sterling deal. It intends to raise debt to finance the acquisition of Worldpay as announced last month.

Mexican state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) was the highlight of a difficult start to the week for Latin American bonds. But though news of a new $8bn loan allowed it to outperform the market, analysts warned its troubles were far from over.

European financial institutions have made very limited use of Canadian dollars in recent years, but the region’s issuers could soon start to embrace the Maple market as they look to diversify their funding bases for the minimum requirement for own funds and eligible liabilities (MREL).

In this round up, China-US trade tension peaked with US president Donald Trump’s market-moving tweet, Chinese FX reserves dipped in April and the amount of Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors (QFII) quotas approved in April surpassed that of all of last year.

The US corporate bond market caught fire this week, as two huge M&A financings - $19bn for Bristol-Myers Squibb and $20bn for IBM - were priced on successive days, and met contrasting fortunes.