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  • EuroWeek understands that ABN Amro, HSBC and Lloyds TSB are arranging a £170m three year facility for HFC Bank. More details on the loan will be released next week.
  • Rating: B2/B- Amount: Eu145m
  • Tranche 1: $300m Rating: B3/B
  • Rating: B2/B Amount: Eu260m
  • Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and the Royal Bank of Scotland are set to launch the £425m debt facility for music and media company HMV Group into syndication. The fully underwritten loan is split into a £275m five year term loan 'A' and a £150m five year revolver. Both tranches offer an initial margin of 150bp over Libor and the commitment fee on both facilities is 45% of the margin.
  • Holcim, the Swiss cement manufacturer, received a muted response to its sale of $674m of convertible bonds this week. The dual tranche offering launched by CSFB and SG on Tuesday struggled to generate demand in an equity-linked market that has been dogged in recent weeks by issues offering no discount to the secondary market. A banker close to the deal said that the bonds were priced in line with the secondary market volatility.
  • Lloyds Bank has received commitments from four of the six banks invited to recommit to the £190m refinancing of the £130m deal signed for Holmes Place in 2000. The four banks that have recommitted to the deal have increased the size of their commitments. Lloyds is waiting for one more bank to join the deal.
  • The office of finance of the Federal Home Loan Banks (FHLB) is to issue its first benchmark 10 year global in almost four years at levels that look likely to be well over Libor. ABN Amro and Citigroup/SSB will launch the deal, which is likely to be a $3bn issue, in mid-May, subject to market conditions. "If the preliminary feedback we have received is anywhere as strong in reality," said Bill Oliva, head of agency capital markets at Citigroup/SSB, "it is going to be a very successful issue."
  • The $200m term loan/FRN for China Merchants Holdings has received an overwhelming response from the market. A total of 20 banks have joined the facility with commitments totalling $420m. The borrower will be given the option to increase the size of the deal. Details are being finalised and the transaction is scheduled to close in the next couple of days.
  • Rick Watson, a managing director in the principal and asset finance group at Bear Stearns in London, has left to join HSBC as head of European asset backed securities and collateralised debt obligations. This is a new position created to develop HSBC's structured finance activities for its financial institution clients and investors.
  • six month facility for Hungarian Development Bank (MFB) will be announced next week. The bidding process is underway and commitments were due in by yesterday (Thursday).
  • Rating: Aa3 Amount: Ck1bn