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  • BRITISH STEEL plans to launch a Eu1.5bn credit within the next 10 days through arrangers ABN Amro, Citibank, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson and HSBC, say bankers. After raising Eu400m via a Eurobond last week through BSKH Finance Plc, the borrower was thought by bankers to have been contemplating a Eu1.825bn loan. However, they say British Steel is considering another bond issue in the near future, therefore reducing its requirements from the loan market.
  • ERICSSON launched its $1bn facility yesterday (Thursday) via arranger Citibank to a positive reception among potential lenders. Although some banks were keen to see a 364 day tranche, this is a single tranche deal of five years. The deal will not be underwritten and relies on the support of relationship banks. Ericsson has a reputation for managing its relationships carefully and likes to keep tight control over the extent of syndication.
  • Asia's highest rated bank strode confidently into the debt markets for the first time this week with one of the most successful and smoothly executed bond deals of the year. An increased $750m dated upper tier 2 capital raising by the Aa2/AA-/A+ rated Development Bank of Singapore (DBS) received a predictably strong response from global investors attracted by the combination of rarity value, yield and future growth potential.
  • Croatia The construction of the Zagreb-Gorican motorway, linking Zagreb with Hungary, is to go ahead following a DM350m loan from Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs.
  • ELF Aquitaine's Eu18bn committed facility backing its counter bid for Totalfina could break European records next week when allocations are completed on Monday. Bankers say almost 30 banks had committed Eu1bn each by yesterday evening (Thursday) and that by close of play today (Friday) as many as 40 banks will have committed to the deal.
  • Brazil n Banco Itaú SA (Cayman Islands)
  • THE ITALIAN government is ready to move into the next phase of its privatisation programme with the sale of stock in Enel, the country's electricity utility. The government has been readying the sale for more than five years, and global co-ordinators Mediobanca and Merrill Lynch have been in place since 1993. Although speculation in the London market was that the deal would be delayed until next year, local Italian bankers say a fourth quarter transaction is more likely.
  • THE ITALIAN government is ready to move into the next phase of its privatisation programme with the sale of stock in Enel, the country's electricity utility. The government has been readying the sale for more than five years, and global co-ordinators Mediobanca and Merrill Lynch have been in place since 1993. Although speculation in the London market was that the deal would be delayed until next year, local Italian bankers say a fourth quarter transaction is more likely.
  • n Alliance & Leicester Group Treasury plc Guarantor: Alliance & Leicester plc
  • Global co-ordinator Warburg Dillon Read will today (Friday) complete the sale of stock in eXchange, the UK online financial services group. eXchange was able to inspire strong interest from institutional and retail investors. It defied weaker global stockmarkets suffering from a combination of concerns over hi-tech stocks, continued worries about the direction of the US interest rates and negative investor reaction to the latest spate of industrial mergers.
  • The Republic of Ukraine and ING Barings this week brought the subscription period for a voluntary zero coupon exchange offer to a successful close, easing fears that the B3 rated sovereign will be forced to default on its external debt this year. Under the terms of the exchange the holders of $504m of two year dollar paper - issued last September in exchange for a maturing special Ukrainian T-bill issue executed by Merrill Lynch in September 1997 - were offered two options.
  • Market commentary: Compiled by Jim Webber,