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The recent second quarter results season has shone a light on banks’ funding requirements and how far they have got in chipping away at them. The numbers are surprisingly positive, adding yet further ballast to an increasingly stable industry.
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Dealflow in Asia’s leveraged finance market was pitifully low in the first half of the year. But one consolation is that those facilities that are coming to market are well structured with attractive pricing. But now that the market is slowly shifting back into gear, bankers must keep their discipline and prevent a return to poorly structured, rushed deals.
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Don’t get your hopes up for September — after a dismal summer for new European corporate bond issuance, few expect a flood of deals when the winter term begins.
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Vivendi’s recent foray into the loan market has set an unwelcome precedent. Despite widespread criticism from syndicate bankers, the borrower undercut all recent benchmarks on the way to pricing a Eu1bn deal. If others follow suit, the syndicated loan will once again become no more than a loss-leader.
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UK business secretary Vince Cable has laid out his plans to increase bank lending to UK companies, especially those SMEs that have been starved of financing for much of the last two years. But the banks, which recently have been sensibly sticking to lending to high quality corporate names, have neither the appetite nor the capacity to fund every small business in the UK and should not be forced to do so.
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UK business secretary Vince Cable has laid out his plans to increase bank lending to UK companies, especially those SMEs that have been starved of financing for much of the last two years. But the banks, which recently have been sensibly sticking to lending to high quality corporate names, have neither the appetite nor the capacity to fund every small business in the UK and should not be forced to do so.