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Axactor, a Norwegian debt purchaser firm, has launched a refinancing of its €200m 2021 bond alongside a rights issue, and a clean-up of its capital structure, which will "increase its capacity for new investments in a highly attractive NPL market". -
The Basel Committee has backed down from tough new changes which could have raised the costs of financing non-performing loan portfolios, allowing banks to use external ratings to assess the risk of NPL securitizations.
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Schroders has closed a new private credit fund, which will use a mix of securitized bonds, warehouse lines, direct loans and other instruments to target dislocated opportunities as the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic plays out in credit markets.
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Debt purchasing firms Encore and Hoist launched new refinancing transactions on Wednesday, taking advantage of good market conditions to strengthen their capital structures ahead of a likely NPL flood next year.
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With the UK in its second lockdown, there is growing frustration among commercial landlords that retailer tenants are taking advantage of payment waivers. It is vital for the health of the commercial real estate sector and the pension funds that finance it that this is not allowed to happen.
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European retail landlords are facing up to potential damage of Europe's wave of second lockdowns, with many tenants continuing to ask for full rent relief despite trading for three months at least over the summer, throwing the sector's long term health into doubt.
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The European Central Bank is offering renewed support to the idea of the EU creating a ‘bad bank’ or an asset management company to manage a flood of non-performing loans engulfing European banks, fuelling expectations that this will be part of the European Commission’s forthcoming NPL strategy. Jon Hay and Owen Sanderson report.
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Bank of America, Société Générale, and BNP Paribas are arranging a multi-jurisdiction CMBS backed by a portfolio of Blackstone-owned logistics properties.
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The Commercial Real Estate Finance Council (CREFC) has hired Christina Perez to its government relations team, bolstering the organization’s education and advocacy initiatives.
