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  • Roadshows began in New York on Wednesday for a $300m to $500m dated upper tier two capital raising by the Development Bank of Singapore (DBS). Representing a first of its kind from the city state, the prospective deal also marks the first truly internationally placed subordinated bank deal from Asia since a Siam Commercial Bank transaction in spring 1996.
  • Australia Reckon and Austar United Communications both made impressive debuts this week as Australia's love affair with telecom and internet stocks continued. Hutchison Telecom is also generating excitement among investors.
  • A deluge of China Telecom shares may be set to flood the market as the company gears up for a massive fundraising and some strategic investors look to offload their stakes. China Telecom is likely to raise up to $1bn in new equity as part of its $3bn-plus fundraising to finance the acquisition of three provincial mobile telephone networks.
  • Korean banks are set to make a fresh assault on the GDR market, raising up to $2.3bn in the wake of Hanvit Bank's $1bn issue which closes next week. Kookmin Bank is believed to have mandated Goldman Sachs for a $1bn GDR issue while Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Commerzbank, Hyundai and Jardine Fleming have been mandated for a $1bn GDR sale for Korea Exchange Bank.
  • The Standard & Poor's downgrading of the People's Republic of China this week added a new twist to the sovereign's likely difficulties in successfully launching a new benchmark early in the autumn. Dropping the sovereign rating from BBB+ to BBB has also widened the agency's rating differential between the Mainland and Hong Kong to three notches.
  • n ING Barings-BBL this week brought another new issuer to the Japanese securitisation market, parcelling 22,726 consumer instalment sales contracts for GC Corporation, a subsidiary of Promise Co, one of the larger listed finance companies in Japan.
  • Global co-ordinator Lehman Brothers is to reveal the price today (Friday) for the sale of stock in Versatel, the Dutch telecommunications group. With the deal benefiting from an outstanding response from institutional investors seeking to gain access to the Nasdaq/Amsterdam listed shares, buyers will likely be asked to pay the top end of the Eu8 to Eu10 indicated price range.
  • issuance of one year floating rate notes reached record levels this week, with a staggering Eu5.2bn issued in five deals as underwriters push to gain precedence in the euro league tables. Abbey National accounted for Eu2.5bn with a bond sole managed by Goldman Sachs.
  • Malaysian oil company Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas) is seeking to take advantage of a lull in the Asian pipeline with the launch of its first benchmark dollar bond in almost three years. Roadshows for a $750m plus five to 10 year global bond begin next Monday in Tokyo under the lead of Credit Suisse First Boston, with Barclays Capital and Chase appointed as joint leads.
  • SENIOR bankers say that the number and the types of responses that Portugal has received over the past two weeks, following its requests for bids to arrange a jumbo credit facility, have been disappointing. Portugal is seeking a Eu1.5bn three year credit that will be used as a liquidity backstop facility. However, some of the few banks that replied to the request offered margins "too high for Portugal's liking", according to one market practitioner based in Germany.
  • Egypt General syndication of the $150m three year term loan for Commercial International Bank (Egypt) SAE will be wrapped up next week. Appetite was such that an increase is likely.
  • FOLLOWING the successful Dra364bn ($1.16bn) sale of stock in national telecommunications operator OTE, investors have been given their second chance to invest in Greece's stockmarket through the Dra77.4bn ($243m) sale of shares in Minoan Lines Shipping. Salomon Smith Barney and National Bank of Greece executed the sale, which involved the placement of 10,638,900 new shares in a bookbuilt primary offering to international and local institutional investors.