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HSBC, Mizuho and Standard Chartered coordinated deal which drew 10 lenders
Deal comes 11 years after the company's previous loan and was extended by two banks
Saudi Arabia mining firm furths relationships with international banks following a $1bn sukuk in January
First Abu Dhabi joins the syndicate for the short term loan all but equalling the size of a previous revolving facility
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After a dire start of the year, financial institutions are back in vogue with credit investors. From hybrid tier one to senior unguaranteed, every funding avenue has been successfully tested by issuers. However, while this has clearly been a welcome development by market participants, not all challenges have been overcome. Hélène Durand looks at what’s in store for the rest of 2009.
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While the credit crisis has been the undoing of many financial institutions, it has been the making of BNP Paribas. The bank can not only boast of having the lowest CDS price of all of the major European banks but also to have been one of the names most in demand from bond investors. Hélène Durand speaks to the bank’s head of funding, Valerie Brunerie.
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China Construction Bank has hired Kenneth Wong as deputy head of its corporate banking and structured finance team.
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UK retailer Tesco has accessed as many parts of the bond market in 2009 as any corporate issuer, raising money with unsecured bonds, government guaranteed deals and a groundbreaking securitisation. Chris Dammers and Nina Flitman report.
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Kookmin Bank, Korea’s biggest lender, played a key part in re-opening the international credit markets for the country’s banks, but it had to take some unorthodox measures to do so. Matthew Thomas reports.
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Santander has taken an opportunistic approach to the capital markets this year, raising money with covered and senior unsecured bonds and saving money with liability management exercises but shunning the Spanish government guarantee. Molly Guinness reports.