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Link Group said it has agreed a €165m deal to acquire Pepper Group’s European loan servicing, asset management and advisory business, which will create a servicing group managing €130bn in assets. -
Chinese stocks plummeted on Monday morning, the first trading day after the Lunar New Year holiday. The plunge came despite measures from the central bank and securities regulator to inject liquidity and ban short selling.
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In this round-up, UBS expects China’s GDP growth to drop to 3.8% in the first quarter due to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, Hong Kong banks shut branches to limit the virus spread and Chinese regulators step in with stablising measures for financial markets.
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The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (Afme) and the Investment Association (IA) have proposed a one and a half hour reduction to the European equity market trading day, in response to a consultation launched by the London Stock Exchange in December.
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RBS has sold a risk transfer securitization referencing a book of UK green project finance loans to the BAE Systems pension fund, which was advised by a unit of Macquarie. The deal is the first ESG-rated risk transfer deal in the UK, and also potentially the longest-dated risk transfer deal ever done in the UK, with an average life of eight to nine years.
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The Loan Market Association is set to restart its Schuldschein working group in February, with a workstream addressing credit restructuring. This is an early sign that the market’s heavyweights are taking this issue — which has damaged the Schuldschein’s reputation in some quarters — seriously.
