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European issuers are finding ever greater depths of liquidity in the private debt market with the Euro PP, Schuldschein and US PP markets all offering different options. GlobalCapital brought together a number of bankers, investors and issuers in London in mid-March to discuss the state of the markets and how they see them developing. -
The Euro private placement market has had to fight competition on all sides, and quantitative easing has helped to make that more intense, with banks, the Schuldschein market and public bonds offering very cheap funding. Prospects of the cheap money tide ebbing are raising spirits. But as Silas Brown reports, the idea of one Euro PP market covering Europe is fading.
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Paris is a centre for continental European private debt activity that goes on outside the German Schuldschein and US private placement markets, which are both clearly defined by their legal documents.
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As more cash is directed into the US private placement market, its attractiveness as a venue for more and larger deals will continue to increase. But even as it sets new issuance records, the question facing investors remains the same as ever — where can more deals be found? Richard Metcalf reports.
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The US private placement market is the largest, most established private debt market in the world. It has huge international appeal, attracting issuers from around the globe who enjoy the ever evolving features the market offers and the fact that it seems to ride out any periods of weakness of other global markets. Nigel Owen reports.
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Private debt markets have made inroads into European funding strategies over the past few years, taking transactions from syndicated loan markets, as well as public bonds. The Schuldschein market has been particularly vibrant, racking up €27bn of issuance in 2017 from more than 150 transactions.
