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Chinese solar power operator Panda Green Energy Group has extended the deadline of a distressed exchange offer. The new note issuance will now be finalised in the same week that its $350m bond becomes due. -
More dollar bonds from Vietnam will come to the market in 2020, despite ratings agency Moody’s changing the government’s outlook to negative this week.
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The Financial Stability Board warned on Thursday of growing vulnerabilities in the leveraged loan and CLO markets. Increased leverage, weak covenants and the rise of non-bank lenders have added risk and complexity to the market, according to the global watchdog of the financial system, and the investors don’t have enough visibility on the debt instruments they’re buying.
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Bond investors are set to start the new year with some trepidation, due to uncertainty around the US-China trade relationship and rising defaults in the Mainland. While there will be opportunities, not all issuers will have easy access to liquidity as buyers turn selective.
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Europe will probably see an increase in rates of corporate defaults in 2020 as credit quality deteriorates. Moody’s expects the rate of defaulting junk-rated issuers to triple, pushing the figure above the long-term average after an extraordinarily quiet year.
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Debt bankers and investors focused on Indonesia are eager to put the year behind them, after elections and a big dollar bond default dented issuance volumes. But they are optimistic about 2020, believing that the southeast Asian country could live up to its potential as a hotbed of high yield borrowing. Morgan Davis reports.
