Credit Suisse, StanChart see top-level moves in Apac
A senior banker in the Asia Pacific financing division of Credit Suisse has stepped into a newly created position at the bank.
View ArticleAfreximbank takes $250m from Asia and plans bumper loan
African Export-Import Bank is signing banks into its $250m Asia-focussed loan and has also sent out requests for proposals for a much larger deal.
View ArticleTEB scoops $567m with ratchet, bookrunners revealed
Turk Ekonomi Bankasi (TEB) has signed a $567m loan, led by seven bookrunners, which includes the same margin ratchet as other Turkish banks Akbank and Vakifbank.
View ArticleMTNs to puff up to grab interest from syndications
The size of an average medium term note (MTN) is set to grow during the next few months, in a bid to attract investors concerned with liquidity.
View ArticleMTN Leak: Volatile volcanoes
The wait is finally over. Discover Iceland is finally upon us and Leak can hardly contain our excitement — although, worryingly, neither can the lava bubbling below Iceland’s ground.
View ArticleVeolia à la mode with France’s first Panda bond
Veolia Environment etched its name into the record books this week by becoming the first French company and only the second European corporate to issue a Panda bond.
View ArticleChina pushes for green financing ahead of G20
The People’s Bank of China, in collaboration with six other government agencies, has put green financing in the spotlight, releasing guidelines for the establishment of a green financial system.
View ArticleTai United eyes HK$3bn via rights issue
Hong Kong-based investment company Tai United Holdings is planning a HK$3.0bn ($386.8m) rights issue, according to a filing with the stock exchange.
View ArticleRMB round-up: more FTZs coming, falling HK deposits and new RQFIIs announced
In this round-up, a third batch of free trade zones (FTZs) get set to be rolled out soon, Hong Kong RMB deposits reach a three-year low, and the RMB qualified foreign institutional investor (RQFII)...
View ArticleHDFC cooks up Rp10bn Masala tap
Housing Development Finance Corp, which became the first Masala bond issuer from India in July, has made a comeback to the market with a tap of its existing note.
View ArticleBAML loses senior members in HK loans team
Two Hong Kong-based loans bankers from Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Asia Pacific debt solutions team have left the firm.
View ArticlePostal Savings Bank builds momentum for $8bn IPO
Postal Savings Bank of China has tacked on some 20 bookrunners to the syndicate group for its long awaited $8bn IPO in Hong Kong, which is set to begin pre-deal investor education on Monday.
View ArticleXi’an government unit dips into bonds
Xi'an Municipal Infrastructure Construction Investment Group Corp is seeking dollar funding, becoming the latest Chinese local government financing vehicle to hit the bond market.
View ArticlePrimary set for strong week ahead, pending payrolls
The financials market is ostensibly set to go into next week in a constructive mood after this week’s series of highly oversubscribed deals boosted sentiment. However, Friday’s US non-farm payroll...
View ArticlePick-up in primary pace expected in covereds
The first week of September is typically a busy week in covered bonds and its likely next week will not disappoint.
View ArticleGo-Ahead buys time with £200m bridge
FTSE 250 bus and rail company Go-Ahead has signed a £200m bridge loan to insure against execution risk when it comes to refinance a sterling bond. A number of investment grade companies have been...
View ArticleCFF to reopen French covered bonds
Compagnie de Financement Foncier has mandated leads for the first French covered bond since mid-June, the bank’s fourth this year and the sixth 10 year in two weeks.
View ArticleSSA secondary pricing update: featuring EIB's $3.5bn Sep 2021
Trading levels given are bid-side spreads versus mid-swaps and/or an underlying benchmark as of Thursday's close. The source for secondary trading levels is Interactive Data.
View ArticleChinese banks show VEB support with Rmb10bn loan
Russian development institution Vnesheconombank signed a Rmb10bn($1.5bn) loan from 10 Chinese banks at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok this week.
View ArticleVanishing yields could put ECB in a bind — Moody’s
As the European Central Bank’s corporate sector purchase programme (CSPP) pushes investors into more highly levered, smaller companies, the yields they chase will disappear, erasing the incentive that...
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