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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.
  • BNP Paribas has provided €40bn of loans to corporate clients in the eye of the Covid-19 storm, amid claims that rivals are retrenching. David Rothnie asks if balance sheet support will result in bigger corporate finance fees.
  • The debt restructuring at China’s Peking University Founder Group is set to be a test case for offshore bonds backed by keepwell agreements, a structure often favoured by many mainland borrowers. The outcome of the restructuring looks set to influence the use of keepwell structures ─ and how these deals price.
  • Struggling UK small and medium-sized enterprises could see their debts sold to insurance companies or other institutional investors in a scheme similar to that used to securitize student loans in the country, according to proposals floated by finance lobby group TheCityUK in a report published on Monday.
  • Marcus John, founder and chief executive of Sports Capital Advisors, tells GlobalCapital to expect a wave of insolvencies in national sport leagues but, he believes, sports with global appeal should fare better after lockdowns ease. Whether TV rights, a key source of revenue for major leagues, will be impacted remains unclear.
  • Each week, GlobalCapital journalists share some of the most interesting things they have been reading, from the profound to the quirky. This week has been marked by widespread protests across the US and the wider world, in reaction to an unarmed African-American man, George Floyd, dying while a policeman knelt on his neck in Minneapolis.