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The attempted fee ambush sprung by several banks on the unsuspecting European Investment Bank and KfW over the last week deserved to fail. But a sober debate about fees for the SSA sector is now due.
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Sponsors of aggressively structured buy-outs might be tempted to cut their losses and run before the economic slump gets much worse. But, in many cases, it’s in private equity’s interest to play nice — and the signs so far are encouraging.
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Hopes that Asia’s local bond markets will fill the gap left by meltdown in the dollar market look too optimistic. While some governments will continue to attract international investors, the corporate sector is falling ever further behind.
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A growing weight of evidence suggests that 2009 is shaping up to be one of the worst on record for the syndicated loan market. Loans bankers are making increasingly gloomy predictions for the usually busy start of the year but there is one ray of sunshine: corporate borrowers have taken the message on board and strong credits are already turning to the bond markets for their funding needs.
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Hopes that Asia’s local bond markets will fill the gap left by meltdown in the dollar market look too optimistic. While some governments will continue to attract international investors, the corporate sector is falling ever further behind.
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Bigger, tighter and more widely distributed, the inaugural issue of the Société de Financement de l’Economie Française (SFEF) last week trumped government guaranteed-offerings from the UK banks. But the French solution has one major drawback: it does nothing for the cause of transparency.