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  • The London Stock Exchange Group has partnered with fintech firm Nivaura for the exchange's new platform, called Flow. LSEG hopes that its adoption of Nivaura’s general-purpose legal mark-up language (GLML) technology will help to establish it as the industry’s automation protocol of choice.
  • Schuldschein arranging banks have long claimed to be the market's gatekeepers as far as borrowers looking for access are concerned, rejecting lower quality credits to keep the standard high. As the market expanded in recent years and a richer variety of companies borrowed from it, this became a less convincing claim. But as the coronavirus pandemic rocks Europe, Schuldschein bankers say they have declined several requests from companies from risky sectors.
  • Morningstar, the US investment research firm, is marketing US private placements for the first time in its 26 year history, according to several sources familiar with the situation.
  • Irish insulation firm Kingspan has raised €750m-equivalent in US private placements, in its first green issue in the market.
  • Several sources have told GlobalCapital that a clutch of new investors have entered the Schuldschein market, tempted by higher spreads brought on by the pandemic.
  • ZF Friedrichshafen, the German car parts maker, is considering moving its focus away from the Schuldshein market, where it is one of the biggest issuers, after finding success selling public bonds this week.