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  • Banca Popolare di Novara Rating: BBB+ (Fitch IBCA)
  • FEDERAL Farm Credit Banks launched a $1bn two year global bond this week which inaugurated a new programme of regular US agency issuance in the global debt markets -- termed Designated Bonds. The debut transaction, lead managed by Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan, will be priced today (Friday) in the 25bp area over US Treasuries. At the time of launch, the Fannie Mae 5.625% March 2001 benchmark note was trading at plus 24bp.
  • CSFB THIS week executed its third convertible issue in three weeks with the Eu350m sale of bonds on behalf of Getronics, the Amsterdam listed hi-tech group. The deal follows CSFB-led issues for Citrix and Swatch in the last two weeks. Getronics sold five year premium redemption bonds with a coupon of 0.25% and a yield to maturity of 2.75% and a conversion premium of 27%, evenly rising to 44% at maturity.
  • THE GREEK government is to sell a further tranche of stock in its national telecom operator, OTE. The state has confirmed its intention to divest around 13% of the group's equity capital as part of its drive to increase the revenues derived from privatisation. The government made a concerted effort to beef up the asset sale programme last year with an offering of privatisation bonds sold to a wide variety of fixed income buyers by lead managers Paribas, Eurobank and National Bank of Greece.
  • Commerzbank AG Rating: Aa3/AA-
  • ARRANGERS ABN Amro, Barclays, Chase Manhattan (joint bookrunner), Deutsche Bank London, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson (joint bookrunner) and HSBC will launch general syndication of the $3bn senior debt facility for National Grid over the next few days. Retail follows an extremely successful co-arranging phase in which appetite appeared insatiable, with over $4bn committed to the deal.
  • India The $120m five year fundraising for National Thermal Power Corp has closed oversubscribed but was not increased.
  • SOUTH Africa's first domestic MTN programme has been established by the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), the world's oldest development agency. The R3bn programme, arranged by Merrill Lynch International and Merrill Lynch South Africa, marks the IDC's return to the domestic bond market after an absence of 15 years.
  • SOCIÉTÉ Générale and Paribas were forced to find extra savings from their proposed two-way merger this week in an effort to fend off the unsolicited bid from French rival Banque Nationale de Paris for both firms.
  • GERMAN development agency KfW this week launched a Eu2bn five year global bond, the latest step in its strategy of marketing its debt as a surrogate for Bunds. Since being given an explicit German government guarantee last April, the borrower has positioned itself as close to the sovereign as possible -- most successfully through its DM4bn January 2009 global. But this year's difficult swap environment delayed KfW's plans for a five year euro benchmark.