Latest investment grade loans news

• P&G's creditworthiness strained by Merck purchase

  

  Procter & Gamble has been warned by Moody’s about its €3.4bn debt-financed swoop for Merck Germany’s consumer health unit, as the consolidation in that sector of the wellbeing market continues unabated.

  • 23 Apr 2018

• Sky Betting sees Stars with $4.7bn offer

  

  The Stars Group has won around $6.9bn of fully committed debt financing from four banks, as the Canadian gaming and online gambling company moves ahead with its debt and equity purchase of Sky Betting and Gaming.

  • 23 Apr 2018

• GSK gobbles debt for Novartis stake purchase

  

  UK pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline has closed syndication on $13bn-equivalent of bridge loans to finance its purchase of Novartis’s stake in the two firms' consumer healthcare joint venture.

  • 20 Apr 2018

• Natixis loses loans banker to SocGen

  

  A long time Natixis loans banker has left the bank to join French rival Société Générale’s global loan sales team.

  • 20 Apr 2018

• Shire rejects £42.4bn Takeda bid offer

  

  Irish pharmaceutical company Shire has turned down a £42.4bn takeover offer from Takeda, putting pressure on the Japanese company’s ambitions for global expansion as it strives to maintain its dividend and investment grade rating.

  • 19 Apr 2018

• ING switch opens up loans syndicate job

  

  A director on ING’s syndicated loans desk has moved to a different job, creating a vacancy that the bank intends to fill.

  • 19 Apr 2018

• Shire rejects £42.4bn Takeda bid

  

  Irish pharmaceutical company Shire has turned down a £42.4bn takeover offer from Takeda, putting pressure on the Japanese company’s ambitions for global expansion as it strives to maintain its dividend and investment grade rating.

  • 19 Apr 2018

• Euro PP banks fight for market refinancings

  

  Several of the earliest Euro private placements will mature in the second, third and fourth quarters of 2018. As Euro PP agents gear up for their first serious spate of refinancings, the market faces a test: will its inaugural issuers remain loyal?

  • 18 Apr 2018

• Hanover first city to launch green SSD

  

  Hanover has become the first city to offer a green Schuldschein.

  • 16 Apr 2018

• Schuldschein's record-breaking streak set to end after weak Q1

  

  After an unthrilling first quarter of 2018 for the Schuldschein market, analysts at two Landesbanks have issued pessimistic forecasts for this year’s deal flow and volume.

  • 16 Apr 2018

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