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Deal rules and slow primary market make ramping up deals difficult
◆ Supranationals and agencies prepare to achieve the previously unthinkable ◆ Leveraged loans versus private credit and their effect on CLOs ◆ A new dawn for dollar covered bonds and UK equity market structure
◆ Schaeffler attracts €5.8bn peak book… ◆ …while SPIE finds €2.8bn of orders ◆ Strong demand allows for strong price moves
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  • Investors in leveraged debt in Europe were hoping for stable new issue spreads, calm secondary markets and receding fund outflows. But as the year ends, they are finding out that dreams do not come true, but nightmares might.
  • Due to the lack of new issuance for over a week in the European corporate bond markets, the vote of no confidence in UK prime minister Theresa May was the talk of both the buy and sell sides on Wednesday morning. But there has been little effect on the market itself so far where political developments in other European states are more of a concern.
  • Three Chinese local government financing vehicles (LGFVs) managed to push out last-minute dollar deals before the year end on Tuesday, while property developer Kaisa Group Holdings raised $300m from a 365-day bond at a double-digit yield.
  • Housing Development Finance Corp is taking the Samurai loan route for its second syndicated financing of the year.
  • The Secured Overnight Financing Rate (Sofr), the chosen alternative to dollar Libor rates, has shown more volatility, spiking to an all-time high toward the end of last week before moving back down this week.
  • LetterOne, the private equity firm that is the largest shareholder in Distribuidora Internacional de Alimentación, the Spanish supermarket chain, has drafted a debt restructuring plan for the troubled company that echoes the latest attempt of renewable energy group Abengoa to survive by cutting its leverage.
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