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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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  • Zhenro Properties Group returned to the dollar bond market for the ninth time in 2019 on Wednesday. The real estate borrower raised $300m from what is likely to be its last deal of the year.
  • German private equity firm Aurelius is preparing a high yield bond issue of up to €200m issue of senior unsecured five year floating rate notes in the Nordic market. Another investment group, Chinese Fosun, also tapped the markets with a €400m issue of unsecured senior notes.
  • Credit Suisse’s third quarter results, released on Wednesday, continued a trend for the bank this year: suffering in the primary markets but doing well in trading.
  • Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) and France’s PSA Group are bringing a potential $50bn mega merger to Europe’s automobile market, with credit and equity analysts agreeing that the deal makes sense for both parties.
  • Distressed loans using US documentation are some of the slow trades to settle in the capital markets, with an average time of 67 days, reflecting onerous legal requirements under the Loan Syndication and Trading Association standard terms. A new tool released by IHS Markit as part of its ClearPar loan settlement platform has the potential to slash this delay, with a recent trade by Deutsche Bank taking just 10 days to settle.
  • Corporate earnings season has produced a mixture of fortunes for bond issuers in Europe, leaving market analysts scrabbling to decode how the relentless maelstrom of macro and technical factors might influence bond demand.
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