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Even leveraged deals still being underwritten, though banks are selective
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Ion Investment Group is preparing to combine its Dealogic and Mergermarket units under a single corporate entity, Ion Analytics, and refinance the group’s expensive private debt raised last year with a cheaper, broadly syndicated loan package across dollars and euros. A strong performance over the last year should encourage investors to look past the group’s previous struggles with access to the public markets.
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Metals and mining company Vedanta Resources has returned a $1.75bn loan and redeemed a $1.4bn bond after its plan to delist its Indian subsidiary failed to attract enough support.
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Chinese property developer Country Garden has closed a $1.5bn-equivalent dual currency loan, attracting seven participants during syndication.
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Leveraged finance bankers coping with a slump in deal flow in Asia this year are gearing up for a bumper start to 2021, as a return of liquidity and growing interest from institutional investors for loans set the stage for a market revival. Pan Yue reports.
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UBS's investment bank beat analyst consensus as capital markets revenue was up sharply year-on-year, while a sale of intellectual property rights resulted in a one-off gain, the bank showed in third quarter results on Tuesday.
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More Singaporean companies are making the transition to a new local currency benchmark rate in preparation for the end of Libor, with Sembcorp Industries becoming the latest firm to raise a loan linked to Sora.