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  • The Euro private placement market might lose some of its smaller borrowers to crowdfunding and technology platforms that offer low cost, speedy loans, market participants observe. But not all in the Euro PP market are gloomy about it.
  • Secondary trading platforms, buoyed up by Carillion and Steinhoff’s credit difficulties, are predicting a growth in trading activity in the Schuldschein market. Major players remain sceptical, however, questioning how widespread use of such trading platforms will ever become.
  • Wihuri Packaging on Monday became the third Finnish borrower to enter the Schuldschein market ever, and the second issuer from the Nordic countries to issue this year.
  • The University of Portsmouth entered capital markets for the first time on Monday, issuing some £100m worth of privately placed bonds. The south coast institution follows many other UK universities in choosing to issue private placement notes, as well as public bonds, to lock in long term funding at low rates.
  • A private debt investment specialist at Pricoa Capital Group is joining the European Central Bank.
  • Orpea's €400m seven year foray into the unrated bond market on Thursday was welcomed by Euro PP lawyers and bankers as a sign their market is succeeding in helping issuers enter the capital markets. Those in the Schuldschein market are not so satisfied.