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BNP Paribas has shaken up its advisory business to address underperformance in its home market, but this must be more than a quick fix to restore national pride, writes David Rothnie. -
A Climate Bonds Initiative and Credit Suisse document on ‘financing credible transitions’ may help to create a market standard for judging when a company is moving to a net-zero carbon future. One of its creators said that, in theory, firms could raise dedicated transition equity as well as debt.
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Aston Martin, the British luxury carmaker, has arranged a new financing package to strengthen its balance sheet and cash reserves as it embarks on an ambitious new partnership with German car giant Mercedes-Benz, to start producing electric cars. The bond leg, however, was launched into a difficult market, with the Crossover widening sharply during the first day of bookbuilding.
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This week in Keeping Tabs: how the European Central Bank could decarbonise its corporate bond book, how digital banks would suffer if the Bank of England goes negative, and what UK financial services policy could look like after Brexit.
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A host of Chinese issuers found one of the last windows to sell bonds on Thursday ahead of the US presidential elections at the beginning of November and a public holiday in Hong Kong early next week.
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Permira opted to rescue its debt purchasing portfolio company Lowell from the restructuring that many thought was imminent, with the largest slug of equity support any sponsor has injected in Europe since the coronavirus pandemic began. Covid-19 has crushed cashflows for some debt purchasers, but next year should be a bumper year for NPL buying — for those firms with cash to do so, writes Owen Sanderson.
