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Changing one of IB bosses shows what Deutsche values
Executive has worked for the bank since 1998
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Deutsche Bank has set up an inter-disciplinary sustainable finance team in its capital markets group, aiming to be “viewed as [a] market leader on this important subject”, as it senses that clients, including big oil and gas companies, are having increasingly to consider environmental and social issues to access the capital markets.
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Companies in the US high yield market have started adding a "corona claw" provision to bond documents, allowing a big chunk of new bond issues to be paid back early if the company gets cash from the federal government. But it’s not clear yet where any public money will fit in the capital structure of leveraged corporates — and whether bondholders could end up primed by the government. -
The UK government has been consulting on ways to use CLO and other securitization structures to direct funding to large companies that fell between the cracks of its existing emergency supports for SMEs and the Bank of England’s investment grade commercial paper scheme.
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European capital markets have continued to function well during the coronavirus crisis, according to a report released on Monday by the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (Afme). However, in terms of primary market activity, the industry body’s data shows quite how sharply issuance has skewed towards investment grade, with riskier debt and IPO markets closed off.
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The UK government has filled one of the last gaps in its offer of financial help to companies struggling with effects of the coronavirus, by removing the cap of £500m revenue, which had barred many medium-sized companies from accessing government loans — raising the possibility that high yield bond issuers could tap loans for a variety of purposes.
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The CLO market is still struggling to find equilibrium as the coronavirus pandemic spreads. The Federal Reserve’s expansion of its Term Asset-Backed Securities Lending Facility (TALF) to include CLO paper as eligible collateral was cheered upon announcement last week. But some puzzling limitations to the Fed’s terms will do little to help the market reboot.
