Société Générale
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Richad Soundardjee became Société Générale’s chief region officer for the Middle East and chief executive officer of its Dubai office in October, having previously headed global capital markets for the CEEMEA region at the bank. He spoke with GlobalCapital / IFIS’s Dan Alderson about SocGen’s plans for its Islamic finance business with a particular focus on structured finance — and how those two areas of business will play a part in the region’s development. -
Indian Oil launched its $650m five year loan into syndication on Friday after adding five mandated lead arrangers and bookrunners to the existing nine.
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Commodities trader Gunvor Singapore, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Gunvor Group, has closed its syndicated facility at a much larger than targeted size of $536.6m, after it was oversubscribed in general syndication.
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OP Mortgage Bank on Wednesday returned for the second time this year to issue a €1bn five year covered bond. Despite pricing at the tightest spread for any Finnish transaction in the last five years and with a negligible new issue premium, it still attracted a robust level of oversubscription.
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The European leveraged loan market, usually the weaker rival of its larger US counterpart, is punching above its weight as US mutual funds have faltered in their enthusiasm for buy-out debt.
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Gates Global - Sport Group - Intralot - Homair Vacances
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Only two issuers tapped the senior market this week despite syndicate bankers flagging up the days leading up to Thursday’s European Central Bank meeting as a prime window for issuance. Barclays was rewarded with a comfortably oversubscribed book for a long end print.
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Chinese telecommunications equipment provider ZTE Corp has connected with the market for a $600m four year bullet loan, picking a group of three French banks and one Chinese as its leads.
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A pair of European supranationals could be the first to tackle funding in the wake of the European Central Bank’s announcement this week that it had cut rates and unveiled a series of measures to improve liquidity in the eurozone.
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Carlyle Group has mandated Natixis and Société Générale to arrange financing for its potential acquisition of a majority stake in France's Homair Vacances.
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Air France-KLM is preparing to issue a new bond, just as Ryanair, an airline that is in many ways from the other end of the spectrum, is also roadshowing for its first ever bond.
