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Food retailer Jumbo, a privately owned supermarket chain with shops in Belgium and the Netherlands, has launched an inaugural Schuldschein. -
Commodity trader Trafigura has launched US private placements, according to market sources, its second entrance to the market in less than 12 months.
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In one of the first pieces of public research on the nascent direct lending asset class in Europe, a report from Oxford University’s Saïd Business School has found that it could grow assets under management by as much as 50% in the medium term, owing to banks retreating from the mid-market and investors looking for higher yields from credit.
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The secondary Schuldschein market, typically something of a backwater, has become a torrent of activity and is now busier than the product’s primary market, according to several sources, as banks rush to buy assets ahead of an ECB deadline for cheap funding on March 31. However, there are fewer banks deleveraging from their risk-weighted assets, and many more buyers than sellers.
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German semi-conductor company Infineon Technologies has launched a US private placement, according to market sources.
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King’s College London has launched a private placement debt deal, according to market sources: the first UK university transaction for more than a year.
