Standard Chartered
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Piramal Glass has closed its $355m leveraged buyout loan, receiving strong response from 14 participants. -
African Export-Import Bank launched a dual tranche dollar bond on Monday morning, with orders exceeding $3bn by midday. Emerging market bank issuers have been especially active in recent month thanks to attractive credit conditions.
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Standard Chartered has revamped its corporate, commercial and institutional banking (CCIB) business, combining its credit and origination operations and promoting a number of senior bankers in Asia.
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Three regular dollar bond issuers from China were the first out of the gates to tap investors on Thursday following a long holiday in the Mainland.
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Philippine property developer SM Prime Holding has returned to the loan market after an absence of five years.
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Beijing Enterprises Holdings battled weakened sentiment around Chinese state-owned enterprises to sell a $700m dual tranche transaction on Wednesday. The company was able to price a successful deal, but only after overcoming recent fears about Chinese issuers. Morgan Davis reports.
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South Korea's Kookmin Bank enticed investors into its latest bond sale by using a sustainability label.
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Vietnam property developer BIM Land JSC made its debut in the dollar market this week with a green transaction.
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Credit Suisse had a great first quarter, if you ignore one or two little hiccups. The firm enjoyed a big uptick in investment banking revenues but senior management is fighting fires lit by the double disasters of Greensill Capital and Archegos Capital.
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Airtel Africa, the UK telecommunication company providing services across Africa, has raised $500m from a range of international lenders. It becomes one of the latest Africa-based issuers to inject activity into the syndicated loan market.
