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The era of pure-play private equity is over. Banks are pulling different divisions together to serve the complex needs of global asset managers
Specialist moves after 18 years in the market
New dangers are making deals harder to do, but pricing for the haves is still tight
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HSBC Securities Services has appointed two global co-heads — one of them a well-known figure in the debt capital markets. -
The African Development Bank has become the first supranational bank to use a securitization sold to private investors to free up balance sheet capacity. The deal, four years in the making, demonstrates a new technique that could expand development banks’ firepower to promote development.
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The African Development Bank’s $1bn synthetic securitization is not its first risk transfer transaction, and will not be its last. The bank has marked itself out as a leader in this sphere, though the effort to get such techniques to work is also highly collaborative.
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The European Commission has unveiled a portfolio of financial guarantee transactions it is doing to support development in Africa and regions bordering the EU. Among them are two programmes conducted by the African Development Bank, including its new synthetic securitisation.
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The US CLO market is on track to match and possibly exceed last year’s record volumes for new issue deals, according to JP Morgan on Monday, but the bank has raised its forecast for refinancing and reset transactions as more managers look to boost equity returns in a tight loan market.
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Banks leading the financing package for Blackstone’s leveraged buyout of Thomson Reuters’ Financial & Risk business — soon to be renamed Refinitiv —have shifted some of the funding away from the bonds and into the loans, increasing leverage in the deal and mirroring the issuance trends seen in leveraged finance this year.
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