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The coronavirus pandemic has catapulted capital markets forward in time. Things thought impossible have come about — above all, a sustained flow of credit through a harsh economic downturn. But are the markets heading for utopia or dystopia?
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The corporate sector was not at the centre of the 2008-9 financial crisis — banks were. This time, it is companies of all kinds that are first in the financial markets to feel the stress of the coronavirus pandemic. Measures to control the infection have stopped many businesses’ revenues, completely and suddenly, and put others under severe strain. In such a situation, the quality of a company’s financial planning and management are revealed. Tested just as much are the financial networks that surround a company: its banking relationships and ability to finance itself in a variety of markets.
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J. Christopher Flowers, the eminent private equity investor, sees a lot of potential for new deals in European finance in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic. -
Generals, and financial regulators, are always fighting the last war. So it proved when the coronavirus slammed into international markets in mid-March. Many of the tools developed in the 2008 financial crisis were deployed to great effect by central banks. The corners of the financial markets that propagated weakness in 2008 passed the test of 2020. But new risks were thrown up, forcing a new round of improvisation. What lessons will be drawn from the Covid-19 crisis?
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Fair Oaks Capital has hired structured finance professional Christos Danias to run marketing in its European CLO group.
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John Hempton, the Australian short seller and self-styled eccentric, believes fraudulent companies will soon become evident in the corporate rubble left by the coronavirus pandemic. Hempton, who has bet against 1,100 companies over the course of his career, explained how his hedge fund Bronte Capital goes about finding rotten eggs in business and finance.
