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GlobalCapital revealed the winners of its annual Syndicated Loan and Leveraged Finance Awards at its Loan Awards Dinner at London’s Sheraton Grand Hotel on Park Lane on February 11. The Awards included GC's new Private Debt Awards. The full results are below. GlobalCapital congratulates all the winners and nominees. -
Sustainable finance players are enthusiastic about regulation, which they expect to bring clarity and order to the market. It may — though when the new EU rules are implemented they are likely to irk participants more than they expect. But what would be really effective are direct actions that bypass finance.
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Reports from Pitchbook and Preqin have found an increased concentration of capital in private debt funds. This is giving larger asset managers a whip hand in dealmaking, while smaller funds struggle to raise and deploy capital, and investors seek the safety of big players ahead of an expected downturn.
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Carnage in Chinese stock markets apparently has little read-across to European speculative grade credit. Leveraged loan and high yield markets are still wide open, meaning issuers that can refinance are well advised to do so.
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Mizuho International has hired nine bankers for roles across emerging markets trading and sales, rates, options, securitised products and credit sales and trading. Among the hires, the bank has found a new head of MTNs and appointed a senior emerging markets trader from BNP Paribas.
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Together Money is preparing to refinance its 2021 high yield bond with a new £385m senior secured issue, the first sterling deal of the year. The storming performance of the euro and dollar markets have meant that, despite the increased post-election appetite for the UK currency, it simply cannot compete on pricing for many issuers.
