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Deal rules and slow primary market make ramping up deals difficult
◆ Supranationals and agencies prepare to achieve the previously unthinkable ◆ Leveraged loans versus private credit and their effect on CLOs ◆ A new dawn for dollar covered bonds and UK equity market structure
◆ Schaeffler attracts €5.8bn peak book… ◆ …while SPIE finds €2.8bn of orders ◆ Strong demand allows for strong price moves
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  • A huge Japanese financial holding company is buying a stake in a US investment bank. Where have we seen that before?
  • Five real estate companies from Greater China made their way into the dollar bond market on Thursday, appealing to investors with short tenors and juicy new issue premiums.
  • Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group has formed an alliance with Jefferies and is providing the US investment bank with capital to pursue its ambitions in leveraged finance.
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    Market participants are getting to grips with the EU’s plans for its Green Bond Standard, released last week. They are finding quirks in it that could help some issuers, discovers Jon Hay, but may make the regulation much more complicated.
  • A flood of capital into certain corporate borrowers and a greater number of investors hunting for yield is fuelling a rise in middle-market CLO issuance, with the sector set to expand this year and take up a bigger portion of overall US CLO volume. Investors and managers more used to broadly syndicated loan deals are turning to the sector but a lack of transparency and the private nature of the underlying borrowers remain hurdles to its growth.
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