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The new UK insolvency law, introduced into the British parliament on Wednesday, will allow unconsenting creditor classes, including secured creditors, to be crammed down during a restructuring. This could mean bondholders and banks, rather than landlords, take more of the pain in the coming wave of corporate distress. Hotel chain Travelodge is likely to be one of the first major companies to use the new rules.
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Cruise ship operator Genting Hong Kong has become the latest Asian company to seek a covenant waiver on a loan as the Covid-19 pandemic hits its operations. A rise in payment deferral requests is putting further pressure on retail banks that are already being forced to take a step back from lending. Pan Yue reports.
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JP Morgan and Nomura have started the syndication of the loan backing Bridgepoint’s buyout of French mortgage insurance broker Financière CEP, in a sign that market conditions have improved enough to fire the starting gun on the sale of loans underwritten before the coronavirus crisis shut markets.
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China’s Hope Education Group is making its debut in the offshore loan market for a $200m borrowing.
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Genting Hong Kong, a cruise ship operator, has sent out a waiver request to lenders to postpone the principal payments on a $300m loan, as it navigates challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Without a vaccine for the coronavirus, it is clear that reopening offices is a serious risk for capital markets businesses. What firms need are strict distancing measures, facial masks and hand sanitiser — but also, crucially, access to frequent testing for the virus and the antibody.But that is a path fraught with difficulty.