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  • Digitalisation and its impact on traditional practices was front and centre at a CLOs and leveraged loan event at the SFVegas conference on Monday, where speakers were focused on the advent of digital platforms, what is possible and what is premature.
  • Singapore’s Park Hotel Group has sealed its maiden green loan, raising S$237m ($169m) from United Overseas Bank.
  • An unusual sale of old bonds in the primary market was announced on Monday. Two entities of Brookfield, the Canadian asset manager, are selling up to $411m of bonds issued in 2018 by Teekay Offshore Partners, the Norwegian oil services group.
  • Chinese travel services provider Trip.com Group has picked Standard Chartered as the mandated lead arranger and bookrunner for a $1.2bn refinancing deal.
  • Swissport, the airport services company owned by HNA Group of China, successfully shaved 25bp off the cost of its term loan B in its recent repricing, in spite of a backdrop of increased fears about the coronavirus and its impact on the aviation industry. However, the deal was less of a slam dunk than other recent refinancings.
  • Dutch equipment rental company Boels has launched a €1.61bn term loan B to finance the acquisition of Cramo, a Finnish rival. It is a rare chance for lenders to access a leveraged deal with maintenance covenants, a concession sponsors will no longer give but which some companies can still tolerate — though the huge headroom in this case means they are a minimal restriction.
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