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European high yield returns have reached 5.2% for the first nine months of this year, up from 4.1% to the end of August, according to Barclays' Pan European High Yield index (excluding financials).
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Germany’s Siemens has locked in some of the tightest pricing seen in the European syndicated loan market this year, having completed the refinancing of its multicurrency revolving credit facility at a margin of only 20bp.
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Second tier Turkish financial institution Denizbank has sent out an invitation to lenders to refinance $722m-equivalent dollar and euro loans that mature in November.
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An amend and extend of outstanding debt by Worldwide Flight Services, the aviation company owned by private equity firm LBO France, received unanimous consent from the company’s existing group of investors on Tuesday. The deal, which will close in the next few weeks, will extend the maturity and substantially increase the margins on two of the debt’s tranches.
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Scandlines, the German-Danish ferry operator, has given the European leveraged loan market a healthy start to October with the launch of a new €875m loan package. The debt, arranged and underwritten by a group of eight banks, will partly serve to refinance outstanding debt and back the buy-out of Allianz Capital Partner’s stake in the company.
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The volume of syndicated loans marketed in EMEA over the first nine months of 2013 was up 19% on the same period in 2012, mostly buoyed by an increase in activity in all regions of the emerging markets.