Argentine issuers prepare second post-election surge
Pampa Energia raised US$450m in the bond market on Monday, while three other Argentine companies – Edenor, Pluspetrol and Transportadora de Gas del Sur – have mandated banks for what could be the last major burst of corporate issuance from the Latin American country this year.
Bupa and ANZ cater to sterling sub debt appetite
The sterling primary market took the limelight on Tuesday with two issuers selling their first subordinated bonds in the currency for over four years.
Rupak Ghose
Bigger is increasingly better in capital markets – or at least more usual. It’s not just megacap stocks but also a clear trend towards giant deals in the corporate debt market.
(Reuters) - Morgan Stanley launched a dedicated private company research page on Tuesday, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters, as investors' interest in high-growth startups rises.
ANZ Group Holdings is stripping executives of more than A$30m (US$19.6m) of bonuses as the Australian lender grapples with the fallout from numerous regulatory breaches and works to streamline operations and cut costs.
Houlihan Lokey has hired Neil Price as a managing director in its financial sponsors group, based in London.
Wall Street dealmakers could be forgiven for thinking they were reading some regrettable AI hallucination when, on October 30, they looked at the US high-grade corporate bond league table and saw Morgan Stanley at the top, not JP Morgan.
The Ministry of Finance of the People's Republic of China is planning to raise up to €4bn (US$4.7bn) through a bond offering, slated to come in the week of November 17.
Gatwick Airport holdco brought £475m five-year non-call two senior secured notes to a busy European high-yield market on Tuesday, continuing a wave of issues that have sterling components this week.
Pampa Energia raised US$450m in the bond market on Monday, while three other Argentine companies – Edenor, Pluspetrol and Transportadora de Gas del Sur – have mandated banks for what could be the last major burst of corporate issuance from the Latin American country this year.
The sterling primary market took the limelight on Tuesday with two issuers selling their first subordinated bonds in the currency for over four years.
Blackstone's QTS is preparing to sell a US$3.46bn commercial mortgage bond backed by revenues from its data centers, which would be the largest deal of its kind in the CMBS market.
Shenandoah Telecommunications is preparing its first securitization backed by a fiber optics network as part of its plan to lower debt costs and generate positive cash flow by 2027.
European auto ABS supply and market conditions remain healthy, with investors continuing to absorb a variety of deals even as spreads have edged wider compared with September.
Norway has become the first country to commit more than US$1bn to the junior capital of the most ambitious capital markets initiative for public good yet launched, the US$125bn Tropical Forest Forever Facility .
Brazil could issue the first sovereign Amazonia bond after the Inter-American Development Bank closed the inaugural deal in the new format , which finances sustainable development projects across the environmentally critical Amazon region.
Demand for "debt pause clauses" could increase after it became clear just how vital they would have been for Jamaica as it struggles to recover from the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Melissa.
Adani Enterprises has launched a Rs250bn (US$2.82bn) 3-for-25 rights issue at Rs1,800 each, a 24% discount to the pre-deal close of Rs2,366.80 on Tuesday.
CPP Investments exited a 5.4% stake in Portuguese utility EDP for €839m on Monday through sole bookrunner Goldman Sachs.
SoftBank-backed Klook Technology has publicly filed for a NYSE IPO next month to increase financial flexibility and let some existing shareholders cash out.
CleanSpark shares are under pressure Tuesday after the company raised an upsized US$1.15bn from the overnight sale of a convertible bond, despite a concurrent stock buyback designed to mitigate selling pressure on the underlying stock.
A group of private lenders have committed to providing a £1.25bn-equivalent debt package to back Permira’s £2.7bn acquisition of London-listed financial services firm JTC.
French medical diagnostics company Sebia has launched a €1.9bn-equivalent dual-currency term loan B that will be used to fund its acquisition by a consortium led by Warburg Pincus.
A consortium of KKR and Singapore Telecommunications is in talks to raise debt of around S$5bn (US$3.83bn) to back its proposed leveraged buyout of ST Telemedia Global Data Centres in what could become the largest such financing from the sector in Asia Pacific.
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