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Virgin Media’s rapid-fire refinancing binge continued on Wednesday with a new high yield bond offering, the fifth so far this month, part of what the company says is a “strategy of refinancing ahead of the curve and maximising tenor across all credit silos”. But the refi binge, which has seen more than $2.5bn-equivalent issued this month, has cost the company dearly, as many of the bonds it is terming out are inside their call dates — meaning it must pay the “make-whole” cost to redeem them. -
A spate of real estate and government-linked borrowers from Greater China flocked to the dollar bond market on Tuesday.
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Chemicals firm Synthomer is marketing a €520m five year non-call two bond to take out the bridge financing for its purchase of US firm Omnova, announced last July and completed in April. The company’s last outing in high yield ended in failure in 2018, and some bond buyers see chemicals as a cyclical sector to avoid, but market conditions are strong following the US Federal Reserve's opening of individual bond purchases overnight.
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The coronavirus pandemic has catapulted capital markets forward in time. Things thought impossible have come about — above all, a sustained flow of credit through a harsh economic downturn. But are the markets heading for utopia or dystopia?
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The corporate sector was not at the centre of the 2008-9 financial crisis — banks were. This time, it is companies of all kinds that are first in the financial markets to feel the stress of the coronavirus pandemic. Measures to control the infection have stopped many businesses’ revenues, completely and suddenly, and put others under severe strain. In such a situation, the quality of a company’s financial planning and management are revealed. Tested just as much are the financial networks that surround a company: its banking relationships and ability to finance itself in a variety of markets.
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Generals, and financial regulators, are always fighting the last war. So it proved when the coronavirus slammed into international markets in mid-March. Many of the tools developed in the 2008 financial crisis were deployed to great effect by central banks. The corners of the financial markets that propagated weakness in 2008 passed the test of 2020. But new risks were thrown up, forcing a new round of improvisation. What lessons will be drawn from the Covid-19 crisis?
