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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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Wind Hellas, the Greek telecoms firm owned by GoldenTree and Cyrus Capital Partners, announced a new €500m 2024 bond on Tuesday to push out its maturities and lock in cash, ahead of Greece’s 5G auction. The deal}s terms allow Wind Hellas to pay a special dividend after selling its mobile phone towers. -
Teekay Shuttle Tankers has mandated a $150m “green bond” to fund new oil tankers built to the firm’s “e-shuttle” standards. The deal raises questions about the logic of using green-branded debt instruments to fund fossil fuel extraction.
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Merlin Entertainments, the UK-listed theme park operator, has launched a £2.4bn ($2.96bn) loan syndication to back its £5.9bn buyout by a private equity consortium. It is expected to add bonds to the financing package.
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Virgin Media launched a refinancing of its $3.4bn senior secured term loan B, with a combined offering across sterling bonds, and euro and dollar loans. The move comes two weeks after Swiss telco Salt proved that bonds could price meaningfully tighter than leveraged loans for the right issuer, and Virgin also saw a strong result.
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The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority is looking at shaking up how UCITS funds manage liquidity, following the high profile pressures at Woodford. Under proposals being explored, bond and equities funds might face stress testing, and the definition of an illiquid asset could change.
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Mexican payroll lender Crédito Real brought Latin American high yield corporate issuance back to the European bond markets for the first time in five years last week, in a deal that fed euro buyers’ hunger for new names.
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