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It is a fine testament to the growing stature of Islamic finance that various novel borrowers are pressing ahead to issue international sukuk for the first time — the likes of Hong Kong, Luxembourg and Dogus Group among them. But with so many debuts revving up to join an autumnal convoy, those that can beat the traffic are advised to do so.
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Even as Ukraine called off a ceasefire and ordered troops to crack down on pro-Russia protests, Russia’s equity capital markets seemed to return further towards normality with a sale of $470m of the Moscow stock exchange. There is no contradiction between those two events and market participants should cheer the return of nuance.
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The power of corporate borrowers in the leveraged loan market has taken a beating in the last three weeks. Investor pushback drove changes of terms on a series of deals, the most recent being the term loan ‘B’ portion of a €7.5bn facility for DE Master Blenders. But this is just a blip. Borrower clout in the leveraged market is still growing, and the shift to the dominance of covenant-lite deals looks inevitable. -
It is a fine testament to the growing stature of the Islamic finance market that various novel borrowers are pressing ahead with plans to issue international sukuk for the first time — the likes of Hong Kong, Luxembourg and Dogus Group among them. But with so many debut deals revving up to join an autumnal convoy, those that can beat the traffic are advised to do so.
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Even as Ukraine called off a ceasefire and ordered troops to crack down on pro-Russia protests, Russia’s equity capital markets seemed to return further towards normality with a sale of $470m of the Moscow stock exchange. There is no contradiction between those two events and market participants should cheer the return of nuance.
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The power of corporate borrowers in the leveraged loan market has taken a beating in the last three weeks. Investor pushback drove changes of terms on a series of deals, the most recent being the term loan ‘B’ portion of a €7.5bn facility for DE Master Blenders. But this is just a blip. Borrower clout in the leveraged market is still growing, and the shift to the dominance of covenant-lite deals looks inevitable.
