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Polls and Awards

Bond awards like no other

GlobalCapital has held its Bond Awards every year for the past 12 years — but never like this. For the first time, we are revealing the winners in a virtual ceremony in September rather than at our London awards dinner in May.

GlobalCapital, September 30, 2020
Private debt

Serco prices $200m US private placement

Serco has sold $200m of US private placements, according to market sources. The deal shows there is still muted support for UK support services, given the right credit and offer, after the sector fell out of favour with PP investors a few years ago.

Silas Brown, September 30, 2020
Bank Strategy

Natixis's new DCM head Levy eyes SSAs

Gabriel Levy, who starts as Natixis's global head of debt capital markets on Thursday, says that the bank has made its FIG business more balanced, while its SSA franchise needs to speed up growth outside of France.

Jasper Cox, September 30, 2020
ABS

NewDay increases ABS, removes dollar tranche

Cinven and CVC-owned issuer NewDay has priced its largest ever deal, increasing NewDay Partnership Funding 2020–1 by £100m and removing the Sofr-linked dollar tranche from the transaction.

Tom Brown, September 30, 2020
High grade and crossover bonds

Japan Tobacco draws big demand for euro hybrid curve creation

Japan Tobacco lit up the corporate market on Wednesday with its debut euro hybrid. The borrower built an order book six times the deal size, despite some parts of the market claiming that investors are shunning the sector.

Jon Hay, September 30, 2020
LevFin High Yield Bonds

HY leads with quality as double-B rated pair hit market

Better quality high yield borrowers spotted a market window on Tuesday, with Spanish retailer El Corte Ingles and Dutch chemicals firm OCI both launching well-flagged double-B rated bonds on the back of Monday’s stronger trading session.

Owen Sanderson, September 30, 2020
ABBs-Block Trades

Bouygues has it both ways with BNP-led forward sale of Alstom

BNP Paribas showed that structural creativity can achieve results in equity capital markets with a €462m block trade in Alstom stock on Tuesday evening. The bank used a forward sale structure to allow Bouygues to financially sell a 4.85% stake in Alstom now, but legally retain the shares until the end of next month so it can vote in favour of an acquisition.

Sam Kerr, September 30, 2020
People News

Cavendish hires ex-Liberum M&A head Vuori

Karri Vuori has joined UK mid-market M&A firm Cavendish Corporate Finance as a partner.

Jasper Cox, September 30, 2020
Covered Bonds

CCDJ looking good amid hopes of core covered supply

After mandating leads on Monday, Fédération des Caisses Desjardins du Québec (CCDJ) opened order books on Wednesday for its first dollar deal in over a year and the first dollar covered bond since May. In the meantime, investors were waiting for Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank's first deal amid renewed hopes that a core European issuer will mandate before the end of the week. With redemptions mounting, there are hopes that other issuers will pounce on the market early in the fourth quarter.

Bill Thornhill, September 30, 2020
Asia

DBS taps Aussie dollars for tier two paper

Singapore’s DBS Bank ventured into the Kangaroo market on Wednesday in search of tier two debt. Though Australian dollar tier two volumes have remained stable year on year, there is a marked decline in offshore issuance so far in 2020.

Frank Jackman, September 30, 2020
Asia

Emerging IPOs flourish as funds seek growth

Equity capital markets bankers are heralding the success of emerging markets IPOs set to be priced in the coming days and weeks, including the flotations of Russia’s Sovcomflot, Lithuania’s Ignitis, Saudi Arabia’s BinDawood and Kazakhstan’s Kaspi.

Sam Kerr, September 30, 2020
Emerging Market Loans

Cocobod’s borrowing costs climb

Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod), the central organisation of Ghana’s cocoa industry, has raised its annual syndicated loan. But the borrower did not have an easy ride and had to concede much higher margins, according to bankers.

Mariam Meskin, September 30, 2020

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