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The US Alternative Reference Rates Committee (ARRC) has updated its reference rate guidance for the move away from dollar Libor that removes the need to get a lending syndicate’s consent. But trade bodies on both sides of the Atlantic do not agree on the details, writes Mike Turner, and some lawyers claim that major issues still need to be addressed before the ARRC-recommended method can work. -
EU leaders meet this weekend to hash out the multi-annual financial framework — the €1tr plan guiding the bloc’s next seven years of spending. The budget contains the €750bn recovery fund, which will likely prove a contentious topic but, if approved, it could reshape the European economy and lead to big changes in its public sector bond market. Lewis McLellan reports.
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Financial institutions are set to spend the summer months monitoring conditions for issuance in order to continue funding this year or to frontload funding needs for next year, according to deal arrangers.
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The US Alternative Reference Rates Committee (ARRC) has updated its reference rate language for the move away from dollar Libor, with the group now recommending loans that mature after the transition have an automatic replacement reference rate that does not need special consent to be imposed. But some legal experts warn that there are still major issues with adopting this approach.
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Some non-bank lenders are unlikely to survive the pandemic crisis, sources say, after the Bank of England told the industry it is not willing to provide emergency liquidity support in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak. Non-bank institutions are having to grant the same payment relief to customers as high street banks but still have outgoing warehousing costs.
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Capital markets have provided record volumes of funding during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report from Afme. But a concurrent boom in bank lending shows that European companies still need broader access to equity and debt finance.
