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Long seen as adversaries, banks and private credit lenders are getting used to working together
Fahy will also lead asset-based finance origination
Direct lending default rates tick higher amid notable distressed situations
A Swiss borrower has already closed books and Austria's Egger will soon
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Institutional investors from the US have been lending to German borrowers using the Namensschuldverschreibungen (NSV) — a non-callable registered instrument that is, unlike the Schuldschein, non-cancellable after 10 years. But some are sceptical of their involvement in the market, as they are of US lenders participating in the Schuldschein market. -
Germany’s ZF Friedrichshafen set final terms on a multi-tranche €2.7bn bond on Monday, with the car parts maker seeing far more demand at wider spreads than where it raised a similar amount in the Schuldschein market in recent weeks.
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Bureau Veritas, the unrated certification agency headquartered in Paris, has entered the US private placement, according to market participants.
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The Schuldschein market has for many centuries attracted buy-and-hold investors, but this may change as some arranging banks are offering lenders opportunities to buy sections of their own Schuldschein positions. But many fear that the whiff of secondary markets will see regulators reclassify the instrument as a security, instead of a loan.
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German tyre manufacturer Continental rolled into the market on Wednesday, one week after it priced its debut floater in the MTN market last week. The manufacturer had enjoyed several years away from the capital markets, before returning in September with a series of public deals. Elsewhere, political events in Turkey have left lira issuance surrounded in “uncertainty.”
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Birmingham Airport has sold 30 and 31 year US private placements, as airports and port operators in Australia and Europe carve out a healthy chunk of market volume.
