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Hectic negotiations and lobbying are going on at the European Commission about the Taxonomy of Sustainable Economic Activities, in the last day before it is due to publish the detailed rules. Key countries including Germany have changed their positions, GlobalCapital can reveal, while supporters of gas and nuclear power are digging in. Battlelines are now being drawn over the timing. -
UK gym chain Virgin Active’s restructuring could set a precedent for restructurings of UK retailers. Dozens of retailers have used ‘CVA’ processes to cut their debt burdens, which typically hits their landlords hard but leaves other creditors unscathed. Virgin Active is instead using the new UK ‘super scheme’ restructuring law introduced last year to try to bind landlords and other creditors alike into accepting writedowns.
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BlueBay Asset Management has hired a portfolio manager to its structured credit and CLO management team, bringing in Tom Mowl from his previous position as senior portfolio manager at Challenger Investment Partners.
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The European Commission is set to put forward a new solution to the intense battle over the EU's sustainable finance Taxonomy, between green finance supporters and EU member states that want to safeguard their plans to use gas, GlobalCapital has learned. This would appear to involve leaving gas out of the sustainable category of the Taxonomy, as environmentalists have demanded, and making a "separate legislative proposal" to deal with gas and nuclear power.
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Finastra and Hubx, two UK fintechs, have partnered to create a new syndicated loan tool that the companies claim completely digitises the bookrunning process, as the loan market makes its slow trudge away from manual processes.
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The three global loan associations have launched the Social Loan Principles (SLP), as the ESG finance market expands beyond its environmental roots.
