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Syndication of the £4bn bridge loan backing the merger of UK mobile phone company O2 — owned by Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica — with Liberty Global’s Virgin Media cable business was signed on Thursday. -
Nomura is eyeing acquisitions and a change in chief executive promises a reboot of its investment banking ambitions, writes David Rothnie.
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Some of the largest investment banks made 12% less revenue from lending in the first quarter, despite balance sheet expansion as they supported companies, according to research from analytics firm CRISIL Coalition.
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Technicolor has asked its lenders to waive a default condition so it can appoint a conciliateur and begin a consensual debt restructuring process that includes €400m of new financing and a debt-for-equity swap. This follows the failure of the company’s planned €300m rights issue, announced in mid-February but thrown off course by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Tendam, a fashion retailer, is the latest Spanish company to get syndicated loan backing from the state owned Instituto de Credito Oficial (ICO), as sectors hit hardest by the coronavirus pandemic lean on state support.
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Muddy Waters has fostered a fearsome reputation as a credible, thorough and forceful short seller whose explosive reports are a danger to anyone harbouring a stake in its intended target. Carson Block, its founder and chief investment officer, told GlobalCapital he has never been wrong about a company he’s shorted, though that doesn’t mean he’s made money from every position he has held. According to Block, monetary policies intended to stimulate markets through financial crises actually corrode them, and stifle accountability for serious failures in corporate governance.
