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Volatility has slowed the pricing of the first US CLO deals of the year as debt investors seek wider spreads amid deepening uncertainty in the broader markets. -
StormHarbour’s head of capital markets, appointed last January, has left the firm.
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Blockchain, the technology underlying bitcoin, is coming to a back office, and clearing house, and bank, and front office near you. Instead of one authority keeping records, everyone will. That’s the idea, anyway, of a wave of start-ups rushing to build workable applications. How will clarity emerge from this ferment, and just how will it change the business of capital markets? Jon Hay reports.
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Volkswagen, the scandal-hit German car company, is intending to return to the unsecured bond market in the first quarter of 2016, once it has updated its MTN programme, the company's financing chief has told GlobalCapital.
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As the green bond market grows, participants are debating how to define it. Should deals have to offer additionality — proof that the projects would not have happened otherwise? Should pure play green companies be allowed to issue — and should oil companies? Sean Kidney and Manuel Adamini of the Climate Bonds Initiative and Bas Wetzelaer of Dutch investor Actiam argue that the market should embrace a wide range of issuer and deal types, as long as the activities financed genuinely help the climate.
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Abengoa’s rights issue has collapsed, and the company is at risk of doing so too. Barring a miracle, the debt-laded Spanish renewable energy company is expected to file on Friday for a preconcurso — a three month period of protection from creditors.
