UBS

Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan is selling a Dkr2.5bn (€335m) block of shares in ISS, the Danish cleaning and facility services company, on Wednesday night, in the first accelerated bookbuild of European shares so far this week.

Cigarette maker Philip Morris flagged off pre-deal investor education for an up to Rph26.70tr ($1.92bn) follow-on transaction in its Indonesian subsidiary HM Sampoerna on September 2, with the process set to run for two weeks.

Banque Fédérative du Crédit Mutuel has burst back into the market shortly after a summer blackout, raising €600m with a spree of floating rate medium term notes.

Financing for three rival bids to acquire Tesco’s South Korean asset Homeplus feature a senior-junior split, according to market sources. One of the contenders is also said to have secured a letter of commitment from a local pension fund, considered unusual as such funds usually throw their weight behind bidders once they have emerged as the winner.

International Container Terminal Services (ICTSI) provided a breath of fresh air to Asia’s bond market with its $450m perpetual deal. The lack of issuance this year from Philippine borrowers worked in the company’s favour, but SMC Global Power Holdings Corp’s quick follow-up had to endure a turn of sentiment in the market.

With the restructuring behind it, UBS is in calm waters while many of its rivals are still deciding whether to sink or swim in investment banking.

With equity capital markets at their nadir of summer somnolence, mid-August is the moment at which the year’s rivalry between investment banks can truly be said to have completed its first half, with the second semester not yet begun.

UBS has overhauled the senior management of its trading business, as Kevin Arnold, head of FX, rates and credit for the Americas, has been given a new cross-asset role that includes equities.

San Miguel Corporation’s SMC Global Power Holdings Corp has mandated eight banks as the company hopes to return to the dollar bond market with perpetual subordinated notes.

Poseidon Containers, the Greek shipping company, has suspended its plan to list on the New York Stock Exchange, blaming unfavourable market conditions.

UK law makes it tough for authorities to prosecute banks over Libor manipulation, so individuals look set to bear the brunt of the criminal investigations, with the first successful prosecution handing former UBS and Citi trader Tom Hayes 14 years in prison.

UBS is breathing new life into its European leveraged finance operations, hiring a new head of origination to ready the troops for the fourth quarter — the first big hire in Europe for David Slade, who joined to run the team in April.