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◆ Schaeffler attracts €5.8bn peak book… ◆ …while SPIE finds €2.8bn of orders ◆ Strong demand allows for strong price moves
Bot claims funding is ‘cheaper than peers who borrow from independent banks or credit funds’
Innovation and ambition have been hallmarks of mergers and acquisitions activity this year, but there are some signs of weakness in private equity
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Metro Bank’s failed senior non-preferred bond is rated BB+, squarely in high yield territory. But while corporates with this rating print at ever tighter yields, Metro couldn’t get its deal away even at 7.5%. Nobody expects the rating agencies to be in line with the market, but sometimes the gulf is yawningly wide.
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Shares in EQT, the Swedish private equity firm, popped 25% on day one after its IPO was priced on the Nasdaq Stockholm on Tuesday — after what sources called a “targeted” IPO process.
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Natixis has become the first bank to introduce a green weighting factor to its internal capital model, so that the way it prices loans is skewed to favour environmentally sound assets and disadvantage polluting ones. The ground-breaking move brings to fruition an 18 month project and anticipates what some believe may one day be demanded by regulators.
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Two Chinese companies tapped dollar bond investors on Monday. One of the most active issuers this year, Zhenro Properties Group, came out with an aggressively priced $300m transaction, while a district-level government financing vehicle sold its debut offshore deal.
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Ronshine China Holdings, a Hong Kong-listed company, has teamed up with a syndicate of banks for a HK$815.5m ($104m) three year loan.
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Market players speaking on a panel on day two of ABS East were sounding the alarm on the possibility that a wave of downgrades could hit CLO collateral over the next three years, testing the market’s ability to withstand an influx of triple-C loans.
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