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◆ Schaeffler attracts €5.8bn peak book… ◆ …while SPIE finds €2.8bn of orders ◆ Strong demand allows for strong price moves
Bot claims funding is ‘cheaper than peers who borrow from independent banks or credit funds’
Innovation and ambition have been hallmarks of mergers and acquisitions activity this year, but there are some signs of weakness in private equity
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Genting Hong Kong, a cruise ship operator, has sent out a waiver request to lenders to postpone the principal payments on a $300m loan, as it navigates challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic. -
Without a vaccine for the coronavirus, it is clear that reopening offices is a serious risk for capital markets businesses. What firms need are strict distancing measures, facial masks and hand sanitiser — but also, crucially, access to frequent testing for the virus and the antibody.But that is a path fraught with difficulty.
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Some financial sponsors are said to be trying to purchase loans from their competitors’ portfolio companies, as an opportunistic way to benefit from the coronavirus-driven disruption. But the European loan market’s restrictive transfer provisions make this a legal high-wire act.
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Loans bankers are puzzled by a probe by the UK's Financial Conduct Authority into whether banks attached improper conditions to loans to companies during the coronavirus crisis. They are concerned the FCA could edge into criticism of the system of bank-client relationships that underpin modern corporate finance, and some believe this is already having an influence on how companies think about mandates.
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Richie Revill, formerly at Barclays, has joined the boutique Asian investment bank SC Lowy as head of markets for Europe.
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The slowly reopening European high yield market faced another test on Tuesday, following Sappi’s decision to pull its planned issue at the end of last week. Data centre and cable network firm Cogent was raising an B3/B- rated add-on in order to pay a dividend. The company is too leveraged already to allow a dividend under its existing bond docs but is using a "temporary deleveraging" and escrow structure to work around them.
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