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  • GlobalCapital's Silas Brown spoke to Mathieu Chabran, co-founder of European alternative asset manager Tikehau Capital. They discussed how the relatively new private debt market in Europe will navigate its way through the pandemic, who the winners and losers will be in the asset class, and what opportunities may emerge from the dust.
  • Helaba has been far more active than other arrangers in the Schuldschein market, launching at least three deals after the pandemic struck European capital markets in March. While others told clients to postpone deals until clarity emerged on price and investor appetite, the Frankfurt-based Landesbank has ploughed ahead.
  • US entities of two of the Big Four accounting firms have entered the private placement market. KPMG sold US private placements in early April, according to market sources, while Deloitte is looking to follow suit.
  • Several investors have told GlobalCapital of their concern for the outlook of UK universities as borrowers. They worry that the spread of coronavirus will hit revenues, lower the demand from international students and may in the end hasten a shift towards remote learning.
  • Danish agency KommuneKredit made one of its infrequent visits to the Swedish kronor market on Wednesday. With many issuers preferring the short end of the market due to volatility from the coronavirus pandemic, the agency instead opted to tap a pocket of demand at the long end of the curve.
  • Schuldschein arrangers are waiting for large German blue chips to launch transactions, to help ease the market’s reopening after the coronavirus. According to market sources, deals are being prepared and are expected to launch in the next one or two weeks.