Standard Chartered
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Ecobank Transnational, the pan-African banking group based in Togo, has set the yield for a $400m five year bond at 9.75%. The size indicated is at the lower end of the $400m-$500m range it suggested earlier in the day. -
Singapore’s United Overseas Bank this week set a new benchmark after the country introduced an enhanced bank resolution regime allowing the statutory bail-in of subordinated debt. Addison Gong reports.
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Bank of China sold another blockbuster Belt and Road transaction on Wednesday, raising $3.8bn across eight tranches of notes in five currencies across five bank branches, It was the largest transaction sold under the BRI label.
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India’s JSW Steel raised $500m in an opportunistic transaction on Wednesday, marking the company’s first dollar bond in two years.
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Standard Chartered is paying $1.1bn in penalties to US and UK authorities in relation to breaching rules relating to sanctions and financial crime. This exceeds the $900m provision the bank announced in February for sanctions fines.
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United Overseas Bank priced on Monday the tightest Basel III-compliant tier two deal from an Asian borrower, setting a new benchmark following the strengthening late last year of the bank resolution regime in its home jurisdiction of Singapore.
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IndusInd Bank, the privately owned Indian lender, priced its inaugural dollar bond on Monday after a careful approach by bookrunners led to a sale that was priced tighter than some investors demanded but kept on tightening in the secondary market.
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Reliance Industries is tapping the Japanese yen market as part of a $1.5bn dual-currency loan syndication.
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LG Chem, the chemical and battery producing arm of South Korean group LG, launched its first euro and dollar bonds this week, after a long sojourn in the won market. All three tranches, which were also green bonds, were heavily oversubscribed.
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The Arab Republic of Egypt on Thursday printed a €2bn dual tranche euro deal with a massive negative new issue premium of 22bp on the longer bond — one of the largest ever negative concessions on an EM issue. The deal takes Standard Chartered to the top of Dealogic’s league table of CEEMEA bonds, though it is a title to be only briefly held as the Saudi Aramco jumbo bond is expected next week, which other banks are arranging.
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The Arab Republic of Egypt has released initial price guidance for its dual tranche euro bond at levels that two lead managers said were around 40bp back of its curve.
