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UK discount clothing retailer Matalan said this week that it hoped to take advantage of the government’s Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CLBILS) — but that the extra £50m available under the programme will have to be senior to its public bonds, requiring bondholder consent. -
In contrast to what analysts had expected before its first quarter results, Deutsche Bank reckons its investment bank will outperform last year’s revenue figures in 2020. However, its fixed income and currencies sales and trading business did not match peers’ revenue growth in the first quarter.
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Norwegian Air Shuttle has revised the terms of its restructuring pitch to bondholders, cutting the size of the writedown it is asking them to take and making sure they get the benefit of the security over landing slots they were granted last year.
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Spanish gaming company Codere will miss a coupon payment due on Thursday, hoping that the 30 day grace period in its bond documents will give it time to find at least €100m of emergency financing to get it through the liquidity crunch.
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UBS generated almost as much profit before tax from its global banking and markets operations in the first quarter as it did across all of last year, it revealed on Tuesday. This was despite taking credit losses and marking down exposures. The bank benefitted from a good turnout in FX and rates and its heavy involvement in a shrunken M&A fee pool.
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Delta Air Lines has pledged landing slots at New York's JFK and LaGuardia airports and London's Heathrow to back a new $3bn bond and loan package. But the restructuring plan of Norwegian Air Shuttle shows how hard it can be for bondholders to benefit from this kind of ‘soft’ collateral.
