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Market participants have welcomed moves by the US Federal Reserve and Treasury, the Bank of England and the European Central Bank to restore order in commercial paper markets. This normally placid funding source has been under severe stress in the past week as investors and dealers shun risk amid the escalating coronavirus crisis. But market participants are still seeking further reassurance. -
HPS Investment Partners is providing a super senior loan of £70m to troubled UK casual dining chain Pizza Express, paying back borrowing from owner Hony Capital and bank creditors, but pushing the bondholders' 6.625% £465m secured bonds down the recovery waterfall.
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UK manufacturer Dyson is looking for at least £250m of debt, according to several market sources, in a private placement set to close in the middle of the pandemic that has largely shut public markets in Europe and the US.
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Three institutional investors pulled out of a private placement for London's Heathrow airport according to market sources, amid pricing volatility due to Covid-19 and as airports take stock of how much the virus will impact their businesses.
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The commercial paper market is emerging as a source of stress as financial markets creak under the pressure of the coronavirus crisis. This happened in the 2007-9 financial crisis too, but this time the strains are different. Market participants want central banks to act.
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Private debt funds in Europe may be the hot new thing to some in capital markets but they could be about to come of age, having never been through a serious credit downturn before. The market is under scrutiny over how it will cope with the credit ramifications of Covid-19.
