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Consciousness of environmental, social and governance factors is snowballing among private debt and equity investors, prompting them to seek new answers to the conundrum of how to obtain adequate ESG information on private companies. Providers are trying to meet the demand, including with innovative products. -
Serco is set to sell US private placements, according to market sources, a rarity from the UK support services since the sector fell into hot water with PP investors a few years ago.
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NatWest Markets has restructured its divisions and given them new leadership. It is also moving some UK corporate-focused bankers over to the ring-fenced bank.
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VC Trade, a digital platform in the Schuldschein market, has begun promoting secondary trading on its system, with an eye of scaling up into Europe’s loan markets.
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Rothesay Asset Management North America promoted Robert Allard to a newly created role of chief investment officer and added Daniel Parisi as mortgage analyst in a move to ramp up its US structured finance team.
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Institutional investors holding Hammerson’s £689m ($900.27m) of private placements (PPs) are to be offered a pre-payment option first after the UK property company’s intended rights issue, according to a prospectus on the upcoming trade. Unlike the UK property company’s bondholders and bank lenders, during their coronavirus amendment process, PP investors negotiated an offer of pre-payment at par of 30% of any proceeds of capital raises or disposals.
