Société Générale
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Société Générale has appointed Florian Dumas for the newly-created role of head of financial institutions sales for global markets fixed income and currencies in Asia Pacific. -
Korea’s Kookmin Bank is eyeing a return to the dollar bond market, meeting with investors this week to gauge interest in a senior deal.
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European corporate bond investors had only one corporate bond deal to consider in August before LafargeHolcim brought its €750m 12 year deal on Tuesday. But that lean period looks to be over as ISS Global followed with a €600m 10 year transaction on Wednesday.
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The European Financial Stability Facility on Wednesday sent a request for proposals for its deal window next week, with bankers saying that the supranational has a wide variety of options. The trade is likely to receive a big welcome in a hot euro market, as evidenced by an impressive Unédic trade on Wednesday — dubbed a “cracker” by bankers away from the deal — and equally strong euro deals a day earlier.
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European corporate bond investors had only had one corporate bond deal to consider in August before LafargeHolcim brought its €750m 12 year deal on Tuesday. But that lean period looks to be over as ISS Global followed with a €600m 10 year transaction on Wednesday.
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Nederlandse Waterschapsbank brought some supply to the sparse long end of the SRI market on Tuesday, printing a trade that alongside Rentenbank was part of a strong re-emergence of euro supply after the summer.
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German medical care company Fresenius attracted 45 banks into a €3.8bn refinancing, closing the transaction on Tuesday.
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On Tuesday LafargeHolcim became the first issuer for nearly two weeks to launch a corporate bond in Europe. The €750m 12 year deal received strong demand, which may lead other issuers to bring forward their plans.
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Amazon dominated US corporate bond issuance this week, but aside from the online retailer’s $16bn jumbo deal, there was over $8bn of paper from five other issuers. However, bankers believe this will be the last week of material supply before the annual two week break in the US market.
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Medco Energi Internasional, which issued a dollar bond last week, has returned to the debt market for a reserve based lending (RBL) facility for subsidiary Medco E&P Malaka.
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British American Tobacco set fire to any notion that markets close in August this week with a $20.8bn bond bonanza. It brought a $17.25bn eight tranche deal on Tuesday — the second largest bond transaction of the year in the US — and followed that with a €3.6bn-equivalent four tranche dual currency deal in Europe on Wednesday. Nigel Owen reports.
