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  • HSBC Asset Management has partnered with HSBC UK to launch a direct lending platform, targeting smaller and mid-cap corporates.
  • Though both Schuldscheine and US private placements are suffering from droughts of European deals, many of the larger investors in these markets are not too parched. Having used these markets as footholds to develop corporate relationships, they are now keeping deals flowing bilaterally.
  • US private placement agents have struggled to attract their typical stable of well rated corporates to their market this year. Public bond markets have proven too cheap for PP funding to compete and the European wing of the market has suffered as a consequence. But instead of waiting for the scales to tip back, agents should find new European borrowers from the financial institutions sector.
  • Trafigura, one of the world’s largest commodity traders, has closed a Schuldschein issue in a debut that surprised many in the market. The deal shows there is an appetite for unusual credits among some of the market’s investors. Trafigura’s group treasurer told GlobalCapital that this SSD is only the first from his company.
  • Mercuria has launched a US private placement deal, according to market sources. The privately-owned Swiss commodity trader is the third company to enter the PP market from Europe this year.
  • GlobalCapital spoke to Andre Hakkak, chief executive of White Oak Global Advisors, a fund specialising in SME, asset-based and direct loan origination, about the Covid crisis in the SME world, the coming end of government support, the end of Ebitda and the challenges of fundraising in a pandemic.