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Infrastructure debt is a favoured corner of the capital markets for policymakers and investors alike. But nowhere is immune from plentiful liquidity in fixed income, and yields have been squeezed. Investors are getting paid less and less for the illiquidity and complexity of the asset class — so they have had to go looking further afield. Owen Sanderson reports.
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New investors are pouring into direct lending and they are scrapping for bigger ticket sizes. Competition has grown quickly, allowing deals of increased complexity and variety to get done. But with everyone chasing the same deals, some have opted to compromise on credit quality. Can the industry weather a change in the credit cycle when it inevitably arrives? Nell Mackenzie reports.
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Europe, unlike the US, has a market for unrated public bonds. This has been one reason why Europe’s private placement market has not grown as large as that in the US. In good times issuers find it a valid alternative to getting a rating, however, as tougher conditions return, the pendulum may be swinging the other way. Nigel Owen reports.
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The market for corporate MTNs has come under pressure from monetary policy, regulation and a proliferation of alternative products. Dealers have been forced to adapt to new conditions to find ways to demonstrate value, but fresh challenges are approaching. Lewis McLellan reports.
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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.
