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  • Land Sachsen-Anhalt failed in its efforts to follow Land Baden-Württemberg's example and become only the second German state to issue a non-euro denominated public bond this week when a planned Swiss franc deal proved unachievable. The state had hoped to follow on from Baden-Württemberg's successful Sfr300m five year transaction with a Sfr200m deal at around Euribor plus 2bp via UBS Warburg, but demand failed to materialise.
  • Compiled by Richard FavisRBC Capital Markets, Johannesburg Tel: +27 11 784 5065
  • Two more senior officials have left Merrill Lynch in London as management changes continue to unfold in the bank's principal investment and structured finance group. Hermann Watzinger, head of securitisation and portfolio credit derivatives, and Henry Schmeltzer, who ran structured credit products, both left last week by mutual agreement.
  • Rating: Aa3/AA/AA Amount: A$100m
  • Marc Pinto is moving to New York following his promotion to head of credit research for the Americas at Merrill Lynch. Pinto has been a financial institutions analyst at Merrill Lynch since 1997, when he joined from Fitch in London. In 1999 he became head of high grade research and in 2001 head of European credit research.
  • France Under the leadership of Jean-Rene Fourtou, its newly appointed chief executive, Vivendi Universal has announced a new strategy to spin off Canalplus in an IPO that could be worth as much as Eu2.5bn.
  • France Télécom has sold its Dutch cable business Casema to Liberty Media for Eu750m. EuroWeek understands that the acquisition will be financed through bank debt out of the US. Liberty Media has been keen to get a foothold in Europe since it failed to clinch a deal last year to buy the six cable assets that Deutsche Telekom had put up for sale. The German cartel office blocked the merger.
  • Rating: Baa1/BBB+ Amount: £200m tier one notes (TONs)
  • Rating: A+/AA- Amount: Eu200m lower tier two capital
  • Mandated arrangers BayernLB (bookrunner), Danske Bank, DZ Bank and Swedbank will launch the Eu80m dual currency revolver for Sparebanken Nord-Norge into syndication on August 23. The proceeds will be used for refinancing. The borrower last tapped the market with a Eu105m five year facility in May 2000 via BGB.
  • Olivetti Finance, the holding company for Telecom Italia, gave Lehman Brothers its first equity-linked mandate of the year when it sold an opportunistic Eu350m bond exchangeable into Telecom Italia this week. The issue, which has an 18 month maturity, was sold on a purely refinancing basis to term out some of Olivetti's debt.
  • Several new high yield transactions are in the pipeline despite a report released by Fitch this week revealing that 20.9% of European high yield bonds, totalling $12bn, defaulted in the first six months of 2002. However, after the euro tranche of a transaction for Greif Brothers and a Eu150m bond for Gerreisheimer Glas were pulled at the end of last week, and while volatility in the sector continues, no new issues are likely until September.