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High yield bonds are back on top as the capital markets funding tool of choice for leveraged companies. This week, Techem tweaked its loan repricing to add a heavy bond slug and take advantage of near-record low coupons on offer. That sets 2020 up with a very different tone from the past two years, when an ever-growing CLO market meant bonds struggled to compete with loans, writes Owen Sanderson. -
Green bond volumes reached a record level in 2019 and market participants think the sector is poised for another blow-out year. Korea South-East Power Co (Kosep) and ReNew Power Private gave a further boost to Asia’s growing green bond market this week, selling $750m of notes between them. Morgan Davis reports.
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Hengda Real Estate Group Co, a subsidiary of China Evergrande Group, raised $4bn across two tranches on Tuesday, just days after Evergrande nabbed $2bn from another bond sale.
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UK flooring company Victoria issued a €170m add-on to its €330m of outstanding 5.25% senior secured notes, due in 2024. The royal carpet maker successfully issued its debut bond last summer after failing at the first attempt in 2018 in a horribly timed launch.
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Altice France has jumped into one of the busiest weeks on record for European leveraged loans and high yield issuance, announcing €2.1bn of bonds, alongside an exchange designed to simplify the group’s capital structure.
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Leveraged credit is firing on all cylinders. The best issuers are breaking coupon and margin records and there are bold dividend deals and major league new money LBOs.
