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A slow destruction of misallocated investment is more likely than a sudden stop
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  • Adam Bagshaw, up until now a senior figure at Deutsche Bank, is joining HSBC to co-lead advisory and investment banking coverage.
  • Fahmi Quadir, founder of short-only Safkhet Capital, tells GlobalCapital her hedge fund increased its short position in Wirecard as the crisis surrounding it unfolded. She said German regulator BaFin should have properly investigated the claims levelled at Wirecard years ago, and pointed to the problem of auditors developing long-term relationships with companies.
  • The second slice of the ThyssenKrupp Elevator financing hit the market on Wednesday, with €4bn of bonds announced across secured and unsecured tranches in dollars and euros, joining the €3bn of loans earlier this week as part of the package to fund Europe’s largest LBO in a decade.
  • PetroVietnam Gas Joint Stock Corp has finally signed an offshore loan that closed syndication last year, after delays over registration with the country’s central bank.
  • Singapore’s Keppel Infrastructure Trust and Cleantech Solar have raised S$700m ($502m) from a sustainability-linked loan and $75m from a green loan, respectively.
  • Taiwanese company Inventec has become a rare example of a company in Asia that has tweaked its loan structure to prepare for the discontinuation of Libor. Progress is still slow, but banks are slowly coming to grips with the big task ahead of them, as the market moves to a new lending benchmark. Pan Yue reports.
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