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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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The revival of the European corporate bond market in the first three quarters of 2009 has been impressive, with issuance volumes by early September more than 50% higher than in the whole of 2008.
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The Hellenic Republic began the year surrounded by public doubts over its creditworthiness and eurozone status, but as Brendan Daly reports, it has overcome these questions and shown that it has no problem funding in the syndicated bond market. Meanwhile, the sovereign has seen its spreads — painfully high when it first came to market in January — gradually tighten as confidence has improved.
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Emerging Europe’s biggest sovereign issuer has nimbly executed deals in the last year thanks to well timed and globally distributed benchmarks. As a result, Turkey is now a case study on how emerging market sovereign borrowers can access the market. Sid Verma reports.
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Brushing aside grave doubts that any Ukrainian credit would be able to tap the loan market, Ukreximbank signed a $135m deal in June. But, as Paul Wallace reports, bankers are not holding out much hope for the rest of the country’s borrowers.
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The World Bank borrowed more in its latest fiscal year than it has ever before in its 64-year history — $44bn. In achieving its target, it broke plenty of new ground in terms of size, maturities, and currencies and also continued to innovate with new products to meet its goals. Brendan Daly reports.
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As other non-investment grade borrowers sat tight, Italian telecoms group Wind Telecomunicazioni went to the high yield bond market in July, not just giving itself breathing room by taking care of its refinancing needs for the next four years, but proving that the long dormant European high yield market was well and truly open for business. Tessa Wilkie reports.