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Mars Capital, now a subsidiary of Arrow Global, has probably sold controlling positions in two Irish reperforming loan portfolios, securitized in RMBS transactions Grand Canal 1 and 2, with the Grand Canal 1 portfolio rapidly returning to the market in a Morgan Stanley-backed deal announced on Wednesday. The move comes as TDR Capital’s bid for Arrow heats up, with shareholders now ready to vote on approval. -
Nats (En Route), the UK’s monopoly air traffic control operator, printed two unsecured bonds on Wednesday, rather than its more typical whole business securitization format of financing. Investors were enamoured with the rare chance to pick up a highly rated name with some unusual features.
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One of the corporate bond market’s most experienced funding officials is to leave the market next month.
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Market participants will embark in the coming weeks on the difficult task of working out how to use the European Union’s sustainable finance Taxonomy, after the first criteria were published this week. In doing so, they will be conscious that the smooth tide of green finance is now breaking against the hard reality of power politics and resistance by fossil fuel industries — a clash that is rocking the Taxonomy’s credibility, writes Jon Hay.
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Hectic negotiations and lobbying are going on at the European Commission about the Taxonomy of Sustainable Economic Activities, in the last day before it is due to publish the detailed rules. Key countries including Germany have changed their positions, GlobalCapital can reveal, while supporters of gas and nuclear power are digging in. Battlelines are now being drawn over the timing.
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The European Commission is set to put forward a new solution to the intense battle over the EU's sustainable finance Taxonomy, between green finance supporters and EU member states that want to safeguard their plans to use gas, GlobalCapital has learned. This would appear to involve leaving gas out of the sustainable category of the Taxonomy, as environmentalists have demanded, and making a "separate legislative proposal" to deal with gas and nuclear power.
