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  • CONFUSION reigned in the Euro-drachma market this week following the reopening of a BCI-led Italy step-down transaction by different lead managers just days after its launch. The highly unusual step -- which runs against IPMA recommendations that deals should not be increased by different lead managers before the payment date -- was taken with the full consent of BCI.
  • SOCIETE Générale and Paribas this week announced their intention to merge -- a move which the senior management of both firms believe reinforces the push to become one of the Europe's bulge bracket investment banks. Monday's announcement came as a surprise -- not least to many senior bankers at both firms. Paribas had been a rumoured merger or takeover target for a number of firms, but Société Générale had not been widely touted as a possible candidate.
  • Argentina Lead arranger BankAmerica Corp and arranger Barclays Bank (Miami) are in the market with a $200m 364 day L/C facility for Banco Rio de la Plata SA.
  • IN AN ATTEMPT to capitalise on improving investor sentiment towards Latin America, the United Mexican Sates will today (Friday) launch a $1bn 10 year Brady-linked global bond via Goldman Sachs. The innovative offering for the Ba2/BB rated sovereign will include warrants giving holders of Mexico's $19bn of outstanding Par and Discount Brady bonds the right to exchange their bonds for a new floating rate note due 2004 and a reopening of Mexico's 11.375% 2016 global fixed rate issue.
  • Egypt Responses are due in by the end of next week from the highly restricted bank group approached by overall global coordinator Chase Manhattan, along with Commercial International Bank and National Bank of Egypt, for the first phase of the project financing for the Egyptian Company for Mobile Services (ECMS).
  • NATIONAL GRID will mandate a group of banks early next week to arrange a facility of between £2.4bn and £2.5bn that will, in part, finance Grid's $3.2bn agreed purchase of New England Electric System. Either four or five banks will lead the deal, probably from a group consisting of Barclays, HSBC, Chase, JP Morgan, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, Deutsche and ABN Amro.
  • NEW ISSUES dominated the US market this week. Despite a wobble on Wall Street early in the week, the first quarter of 1999 is fast shaping up as one of frenetic activity. Although technology stocks and established names remain favourites with investors, there is an increasing number of middle and small cap companies lined up for the next few weeks as the IPO market starts to broaden out.