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  • The aftermath of the UK’s decision to leave the European Union has been an uneasy calm. Inflation is at a 20 month high of 0.6%, unemployment is at a post-crisis low, and consumer spending is robust. But then of course, nothing has happened yet.
  • Leveraged finance bankers probably didn’t think their jobs could get any tougher. Not until Wednesday at least, when, at Euromoney's Levinvest conference, the ECB dropped the bombshell that it was, in all likelihood, set to introduce ‘guidance’ on leveraged lending.
  • Pricing is growing tight in the European leveraged loan market — very tight. Investors are moaning, but they will receive little sympathy from buyers of other asset classes.
  • The grins on the faces of Werner Baumann and Hugh Grant, chief executives of Bayer and Monsanto, look genuine enough. The deal they have struck could catapult Baumann to head of the world’s leading agribusiness company and net Grant a reported $226m.
  • Emaciated volumes in the loan and Euro PP markets mean they must buddy up to offer borrowers the best of both worlds.
  • The emergence of a rare tobacco settlement securitization deal in the US this week should raise questions about the perversity of these deals.