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The International Finance Corp became the first issuer to launch a green Komodo bond — an offshore bond in Indonesian rupiah — on September 28. But the World Bank had the same idea: it launched a sustainability bond in rupiah the following week. -
The order book for Afreximbank’s revived five year dollar benchmark had filled with more than $1bn of orders by Thursday lunchtime, according to a banker close to the deal.
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Petrochemicals company Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (Sabic) and Qatari bank Al Khalij Commercial Bank printed bonds on Tuesday with no sign of investors wearying of Middle Eastern supply despite $12.5bn having been sold from the region since the start of September.
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The Ministry of Finance of the People’s Republic of China has mandated 12 banks to work on its planned $3bn return to the bond market, which could come next week.
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Petrochemicals company Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (Sabic) is in the market on Tuesday with a dual tranche dollar deal.
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Philippine food and beverage producer and distributor Universal Robina Corp is gauging appetite among banks for a NZ$420m ($278m) loan to refinance an old borrowing used to back the acquisition of New Zealand’s Griffin’s Foods.
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Public sector borrowers snapped up cut price deals in the private markets this week, helping to quell trades in the benchmark sector.
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When UK telecoms company Vodafone announced in May that it had agreed to buy some of US rival Liberty Global’s European operations, it said it would use existing cash, €3bn of mandatorily convertible bonds and new debt, including hybrid bonds to fund the €18.4bn acquisition. On Wednesday, Vodafone sold the hybrid bonds, using four different tenors in three currencies. Nigel Owen reports.
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When UK telecoms company Vodafone announced in May that it had agreed to buy some of US rival Liberty Global’s European operations, it said it would use existing cash, €3bn of mandatorily convertible bonds and new debt, including hybrid bonds to fund the €18.4bn acquisition. On Wednesday, Vodafone sold the hybrid bonds, using four different tenors in three currencies.
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Aldar Properties, a real estate company based in Abu Dhabi, needed large orders from lead managers on Tuesday to get to $500m with a seven year sukuk transaction.
