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Oil major BP and motorbike maker Harley-Davidson both hit the euro bond market on Tuesday, in the wake of the European Central Bank’s far bigger than expected first week of corporate bond purchases. -
Egypt is in market promoting a new deal: three tranches of benchmark dollar funding. Its 40 year tranche will be Egypt’s longest ever deal.
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Road King Infrastructure returned to the dollar market for the fourth time this year on Monday. The borrower, which has favoured fixed-for-life perpetual bonds before, offered investors a slightly different perpetual deal this time that would see its coupon be reset but has no additional step-up.
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Sun Hung Kai & Co raised $350m from a new bond that exceeded its size expectation, helping support a tender offer.
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China’s Ministry of Finance has raised €4bn from a three tranche deal, returning to the euro market after 15 years away. The bond is expected to encourage Chinese issuers from across the credit spectrum to tap the euro market, writes Addison Gong.
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Qatar International Islamic Bank mandated banks on Wednesday for an AT1 sukuk, one day after Masraf al Rayan (MAR), another Qatari Islamic bank, had achieved tight pricing on its senior unsecured offering in the format. But another Middle Eastern deal, in Reg S/144A format, was pulled this week.
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China’s Ministry of Finance has raised €4bn from a three tranche deal, returning to the euro market after a 15 year layoff. Bankers think the deal will encourage Chinese issuers from across the credit spectrum to come to the euro market.
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Bajaj Finance, an Indian non-banking financial company, has launched its debut offshore borrowing of $575m-equivalent into general syndication.
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Philippine conglomerate San Miguel Corp has launched its $1.75bn loan into general syndication, after one bank joined as a mandated lead arranger and bookrunner during the senior phase.
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South Korean steel company Posco checked every box for investors with its $500m bond issuance on Monday. Even though the deal offered no new issue premium and pricing was tightened aggressively, buy-side support did not waver, said bankers.
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Six Chinese real estate issuers — mostly high yield — flooded the dollar bond market on Monday with one to four year tenor deals. Investment grade rated China Vanke Co, on the other hand, tapped the longer end of the curve with a dual-tranche issuance.
