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  • Australia Westpac Banking Corp has joined BA Australia, Crédit Agricole Indosuez Australia, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson Australia and HSBC as a lead arranger for GPU Gas Net's A$750m two tranche deal for the acquisition of the assets of Transmission Pipelines of Australia.
  • Banca Toscana is setting up a Eu1.5bn Euro-MTN programme via Paribas, reflecting a strategic shift toward the international capital markets and away from traditional reliance on retail deposits. Like most Italian banks, Toscana has depended heavily on selling its own bonds to retail savers via its branch network, and onlending the relatively cheap funds obtained.
  • THE REPUBLIC of Hungary is planning to follow corporates BorsodChem and Matav into the loans market this summer, probably via the National Bank of Hungary. Banks are in the early stages of talks with the state and a deal should emerge in the third quarter. The borrower has not yet set a deadline for bids to be submitted.
  • REPSOL, which had been seeking a refinancing for its $9bn facility, has cancelled the entire transaction in advance of the drawdown date and the next level of fees. Instead the $9bn jumbo syndicated loan will be refinanced through a mixture of instruments. An equity offering of about $5.8bn is scheduled for July, but bankers say that the borrower will use its commercial paper programme to bridge the gap, and that it will supplement this with bilaterals, mostly tapped from Spanish banks.
  • ERICSSON has emerged as the Swedish corporate believed to be tapping the market for a jumbo facility as per the last issue of Euroweek. The company (rated A+/A1) has been taking bids for $1bn over five years, to refinance its $200m five year revolver signed in 1995.
  • LEAD MANAGER Nomura is to launch the IPO of Lakah Group, the largest privately owned industrial group in Egypt. The mandate is a coup for the bookrunner, while the deal could be an important step in the development of a market that has offered scant supply of new equity to international investors.
  • Argentina Sodigas Pampeana has mandated Santander Investment Securities Inc, BankBoston NA, Bank of America and Banco Bilbao Vizcaya to arrange a $150m bridge to a bond.
  • Lloyds TSB will test the depth of demand for subordinated debt in the coming weeks when the UK clearing bank launches $2bn of perpetual step-up bonds to finance its agreed £7bn acquisition of mutual life company Scottish Widows.
  • Egypt Bank of New York, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi and WestLB launched late last week a $150m three year term loan for Commercial International Bank (Egypt) SAE to co-arrangers. Banks are offered 40bp for a take-and-hold commitment of $10m.