Standard Chartered
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South Korea's Kookmin Bank enticed investors into its latest bond sale by using a sustainability label. -
Vietnam property developer BIM Land JSC made its debut in the dollar market this week with a green transaction.
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Credit Suisse had a great first quarter, if you ignore one or two little hiccups. The firm enjoyed a big uptick in investment banking revenues but senior management is fighting fires lit by the double disasters of Greensill Capital and Archegos Capital.
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Airtel Africa, the UK telecommunication company providing services across Africa, has raised $500m from a range of international lenders. It becomes one of the latest Africa-based issuers to inject activity into the syndicated loan market.
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Coats, the UK industrial thread producer, has signed a $360m loan, adding environmental, social and governance metrics to its bank debt for the first time.
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The global head of bond syndicate at Standard Chartered has been placed at risk of redundancy. The bank will divide his responsibilities between two other positions, one of which was vacated just last week.
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Hong Kong-listed ESR Cayman, a logistics real estate company, has raised a $400m dual-tranche borrowing.
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Ping An International Financial Leasing, a wholly-owned subsidiary of China’s Ping An Group, is casting a wide net for its $500m loan comeback, in a bid to diversify its financing sources — and its banking relationships.
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New Development Bank will become the first issuer to hit the dollar market this week, announcing a five year benchmark, the proceeds of which will fund sustainable development activities and emergency support loans to its member countries.
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Equate Petrochemical, the petrochemical producer part-owned by Kuwait, has laid plans to re-enter the international debt markets after less than a year since its last outing. The mandate comes just days after the IMF warned Kuwait to undergo fiscal consolidation after its economy shrank last year.
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China Construction Bank Corp turned to the bond market on Thursday to sell a $2.4bn equivalent multi-currency transaction, with each tranche carrying a socially responsible investment (SRI) label. But recent volatility in the region’s credit market, and the issuer’s own ‘ambiguous’ approach to the trade, posed challenges.
