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LBO financing includes $5.75bn term loan to be priced early next week
Investors eye 2028, 2031, 2032 as big years for loan maturities
Even leveraged deals still being underwritten, though banks are selective
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), which controls the distribution of movies and TV content such as the James Bond franchise and The Handmaid’s Tale, is in the market with a new $2.5bn refinancing package this week, as traditional US media companies ramp up their borrowing to fund new content to compete with new competitors such as Netflix.
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Just one issuer had tapped US high yield investors by Thursday this week, following the quietest May since 2010 and with leveraged loans now outweighing high yield bonds for the first time since 2008.
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Does it matter if a green bond becomes separated from the green assets that underlie it? The link keeps the issuer honest — but shouldn’t the green bond market be doing more than that?
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French supermarket group Casino has announced a €1.5bn asset disposal plan, which should take pressure of holding company Rallye’s bonds. The asset sales are an attempt to deleverage amid sharp volatility in the company’s shares.
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French banks will have to comply with a countercyclical capital buffer requirement as a means of promoting financial stability amid a rapid increase in corporate debt levels.
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Singapore’s Wilmar International has raised a $200m sustainability-linked loan, the second of its kind from the agribusiness company in seven months.