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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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  • Asia’s dollar bond issuers hit pause this week as all eyes turned to the outcome of the nail-bitingly close US presidential election. With the result still uncertain on Thursday, but signs showing a Joe Biden victory as a possibility, some bankers in the region reckon the debt market may be at full throttle from next week. Morgan Davis reports.
  • As Tuesday's vote count looks likely to drag into Thursday without a clear winner in the US presidential race, the CLO space is likely to remain stalled through next week after managers raced to get ahead of the US election to price around $13bn of deals in October.
  • The Alternative Credit Council (ACC) has recommended allowing CLOs to obtain a ‘simple, transparent and standardised’ (STS) certification to increase the flow of funding to European borrowers. Investors have pushed back on such proposals, however, citing the heavy due diligence needed to invest in STS deals.
  • JP Morgan has made Stefan Povaly, co-head of EMEA leveraged finance origination, country head for Germany, part of a raft of senior changes in the country following the promotion of Dorothee Blessing to co-head of EMEA investment banking earlier this year.
  • German dairy group Müller has sold €250m of US private placements across five, seven and 10 years maturities.
  • Aerospace and defence supplier Meggitt has sold $300m US private placements at three and five years, according to market sources, with leverage step ups to further protect investors.
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