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Struggling Spanish construction group Aldesa saw a Christmas bounce in its Caa1-rated bonds, following a December 25 takeover deal and capital injection from China Railway Construction Corporation. -
Damien Loynes has been appointed head of syndicate for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Crédit Agricole.
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Bonds in two pre-crisis CMBS deals backed by UK hospitals, are set to be repaid following a bid from Alabama-based Medical Properties Trust for 30 properties backing the deal. The Reit will fund the deal with recently signed high yield bonds, drawing down the curtain on a saga which has seen the ill-fated 2007 CMBS restructured twice in the last five years.
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Nordea has agreed a €5.1bn risk transfer securitization of corporate and small and medium-sized enterprise loans, to close in January. It is Nordea's second synthetic risk transfer deal and the first since it redomiciled into Europe’s Banking Union, which has given it a lead regulator more supportive of synthetic securitization than the Swedish regulator.
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The Financial Stability Board warned on Thursday of growing vulnerabilities in the leveraged loan and CLO markets. Increased leverage, weak covenants and the rise of non-bank lenders have added risk and complexity to the market, according to the global watchdog of the financial system, and the investors don’t have enough visibility on the debt instruments they’re buying.
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Europe will probably see an increase in rates of corporate defaults in 2020 as credit quality deteriorates. Moody’s expects the rate of defaulting junk-rated issuers to triple, pushing the figure above the long-term average after an extraordinarily quiet year.
