About 90 people are said to have attended the opening presentation in Jakarta yesterday Wednesday for the CCCB3-rated bank's $100 million five-year FRN with three-year call and puts. There will now be a break for Ramadan before presentations commence again in Singapore on December 3 and Hong Kong on December 4, with pricing thereafter.
Investors report that the HSBC-led deal is likely to the first but not the last offering from Indonesia's largest bank as it seeks to re-build a yield curve for the Republic and raise funds to pay-down debt coming due over the next couple of years. However, a second deal is not expected until Mandiri completes its IPO,...