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A question mark hung over BMW’s quarterly round of private placements this week. Like some of its rivals' emissions test results, deals over the last few days showed rather higher numbers than earlier in the year. -
The weakness of the US leveraged finance market was brought home to market participants with a jolt on Tuesday, when the Carlyle Group, which is buying Veritas Technologies, a US data storage company, abandoned its attempt to raise $3.3bn of debt for the deal.
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LeasePlan, a leading fleet management firm, has placed a rare investor-led private medium term note in Czech koruna, while a French real estate company sold its largest ever MTN in Hong Kong dollars.
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Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik (AT&S), an Austrian printed circuit board manufacturer, has tapped the Schuldschein market. The firm is getting more than an attractive interest rate, as it exploits the product’s Asian investors.
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German airline Lufthansa is considering issuing its first Schuldschein for three years because the German private placement market could offer it better pricing than the conventional bond market.
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The internationalisation of the Schuldschein market, Germany's answer to private placements, has been widely hailed, with foreign issuers and investors increasingly prominent. But even the banks that arrange the deals now include some surprising non-German names, writes Elly Whittaker.
