Wells Fargo Securities

Malaysia’s AmBank has closed syndication and finalised allocations for its $300 three year loan, after six banks committed to the transaction.

Goldman Sachs exploited a stable background in the investment grade market to print its biggest fixed rate deal of the year.

The dam opened again in the US corporate bond market this week and a torrent of issues poured out, as companies emerged from earnings blackouts and turned the week into the busiest for corporate high grade issuance so far this year.

Cinven is raising a syndicated loan to back its $915m takeover of a majority stake in Medpace, the US clinical research outsourcing firm.

The US investment grade corporate bond market sprang back to life this week as four big issuers hit the market in quick succession on Thursday, after multi-billion dollar deals from Novartis and Comcast earlier in the week.

Bob Fernandez started at Wells Fargo this month as head of international debt capital markets and syndicate.

The fourth biggest bank in the US has its sights set on European expansion and it has the scale and desire to be a success in investment banking, writes David Rothnie.