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Investment Grade Loans

Merck’s Versum takeover loan hits syndication

The loan backing the €5.8bn takeover of Versum Materials by German pharmaceutical firm Merck launched into syndication on Wednesday. Three banks are leading the financing. Versum is the former electronic materials division of Air Products & Chemicals, which was spun off in 2016.

Mike Turner, May 01, 2019
Regulation

Pantheon: UK could issue tax cut Gilts in next downturn

Amid criticism of the effect of quantitative easing (QE) on asset prices, the Bank of England could buy themed government bonds instead of regular Gilts in the next downturn, according to Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics. This would be designed to ensure that QE directly helped the economy.

Jasper Cox, May 01, 2019
Covered Bonds

Covered bonds steady for now, but overvalued

This year’s covered bond market's performance could come back to bite it. Limited supply should support the market, but ultra-tight spreads and low yields have left investors vulnerable to a sell-off — not least because they have been forced to extend duration in search of a return.

Bill Thornhill, May 01, 2019
EM LatAm

Venezuela turmoil grips Lat Am bonds

A coup attempt in Venezuela has rekindled hopes among investors that president Nicolás Maduro will cede control to the opposition regime. The development drew the spotlight away from Argentina’s spiralling currency.

Lewis McLellan, May 01, 2019
Corporate Bonds

NatWest hires country head to build in Germany from BNPP

NatWest Markets has hired an experienced debt capital markets banker to be its country head for Germany, based in Frankfurt.

Jon Hay, May 01, 2019
EM People and Markets

Jefferies poaches two from ING for EM sales and trading

Jefferies is nearing the completion of its EM sales and trading team started 2.5 years ago, with two more hires in London.

Francesca Young, May 01, 2019
Senior Debt

Barclays gets to work in sterling on Labour Day

Barclays has wasted little time in accessing the debt markets after publishing first quarter results, selling senior bonds out of its holding company in both dollars and sterling this week.

Tyler Davies, May 01, 2019
Equity IPOs

Fundamental confidence buoys ECM but fears a 'black swan' could sink it

US blue chips' strong earnings numbers are spurring the belief that the improving economic fundamentals are behind the global equity rally of the first four months. But investors fear that their peers' confidence is fragile and an unforeseen geopolitical event could deal it a heavy blow.

Sam Kerr, May 01, 2019
Corporate Bonds

High yield investors sink their teeth into deals

For the second week running, high yield is making the pace in European corporate bond markets, with a further heavy slug of new issues after last week's splurge of supply.

Alex Radford, May 01, 2019
Equity

Swedbank hires Finnish corp fin head, seeks to hire in ECM

Walter Ahlström is joining Swedbank as its new head of corporate finance in Finland, as part of its strategy to grow its equity capital markets business and team. He is joining from Carnegie, where he had worked in Finnish ECM. He had been there for nearly four years.

Francesca Young, May 01, 2019
Supras and agencies

Rare hawk sighting expected at BoE

The Bank of England will publish the minutes of its policy meeting on Thursday, with investors and bank analysts aligned in thinking that a Brexit extension will see a small but noticeable move towards more hawkish language from the bank.

Mike Turner, May 01, 2019
SEC enforcers swoop on CLO combo notes

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is taking a second look into combination notes, a genre of resecuritized CLOs, nearly nine months after Moody’s was fined for allegedly misrepresenting risks contained in the blended debt products. Alex Saeedy reports.

Alexander Saeedy, April 30, 2019

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