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Transition finance in transition — companies face investors in flux

Demand to invest in the low carbon transition is growing fast, but strategies are very diverse
Issuance net of buy-backs is not that high, and there is no sign of any indigestion

Caffil lands social covered bond as market ‘comes off the boil’

◆ Order book smaller than issuer’s last covered in January ◆ Banker said covered bond market has reached plateau ◆

AI impact fear rocks IPO hopefuls

Questions hang over the future of software as a service firms
Issuance net of buy-backs is not that high, and there is no sign of any indigestion
Sub-sections
  • China Water Affairs Group is back in the loan market with a $100m club deal.
  • The shock of the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak has forced some rapid thinking among capital markets participants. Almost the first impact has been on travel.
  • ABS
    Residential Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) finance company Renovate America filed an ABS 15-G this week, announcing plans to bring the first deal of 2020. Despite regulatory burdens that have resulted in lower ABS volumes, PACE providers are expecting a steady year, with another 144A deal slated to come as early as April, according to sources at SFVegas 2020 this week.
  • The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) outlined plans to develop and impose "vulnerability assessments", or stress tests, to evaluate the resilience of Australian banks to the effects of climate change.
  • SRI
    The Central American Bank for Economic Integration is hoping to persuade the UK government to join it as a shareholder, holding out the prospect that UK companies building infrastructure in central America might be able to gain preferential funding on attractive terms now enjoyed by Korean firms.
  • A politically charged fight over position limits on commodity derivatives appears set to kick off after the European Commission opened a consultation on the second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) this week.