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Foreign investors flocking to the Schuldschein market are drawing in issuers and forcing margins lower. As demand from overseas drives the swelling supply, Silas Brown asks: will the market be able to preserve its traditional strengths as it accommodates new investors? -
Schuldschein issuance surged to a record high in 2016, as issuers and investors from across the world flocked to a private market with deep pools of investors, flexible formats and straightforward documentation. With the variety of issuers growing all the time, the Schuldschein is fast becoming Europe’s defining private placement product, writes Silas Brown.
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The attraction for companies of having some private debt that is neither loan nor public bond is now well established — but the market that is reaping much of the deal flow from that trend is the Schuldschein. New investors are flocking to it, and so are issuers, even though bank loans are freely available to many.
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Europe’s Capital Markets Union project was supposed to place a regulatory rocket underneath the region’s private debt markets. But it has been slow work so far. What are the next steps for official support of the asset class? Owen Sanderson reports.
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The widely admired US private placement market has inspired the development and growth of private debt markets in Europe. But hopes of replicating in Europe the US model, governed by regulation and convention, of a single market with one set of documents, have been pushed back. As Jon Hay reports, the market now looks headed towards a more varied ecosystem.
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Volkswagen is planning a return to public bond markets for the first time since it was engulfed by its emissions test cheating scandal in September 2015, write Michael Turner, Silas Brown and Jon Hay.
