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January's ABS data center deals see tenant numbers drop but demand remains strong
Deals including some commercial mortgages expected to follow
Deal was priced 6bp tighter than most recent iteration of the asset class
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With December on the horizon, bankers are looking to get deals over the line before investors close their books for the year. A few remaining deals in the pipeline are out with price talk, looking to print either this week or next week at the latest. -
HSBC has appointed a new head of sustainable bonds for EMEA, in its debt capital markets team, after Victoria Clarke left to join Barclays in August.
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European ABS collateral quality is expected to broadly remain stable in 2019, said Moody’s. But the ratings agency singled out the UK as an exception, saying it expects every underlying UK asset to exhibit higher credit risk next year.
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TwentyFour Income Fund Limited, a closed-end fund with a market capitalisation of £475m ($606.94m), is intending to grow by raising additional equity capital in response to investor demand and favourable market conditions. The fund, which invests in euro ABS, intends to issue new shares at a 2% premium to the unaudited net asset value per share.
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The frequency of devastating wildfires has rocketed in California over the past two years. Camp Fire, still burning through California, looks set to wipe out a catastrophe bond, leading to sharp questions about how to model and price an emergent risk to companies, buildings and people when this is bundled out to the capital markets.
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The next few months in the run-up to Brexit will bring upheaval for debt capital markets and syndicate teams at London’s investment banks, as they work out which roles will have to be done from the European Union and which staff to move. But the pressure will not cease on March 29, as national regulators have considerable scope to compel banks to relocate jobs. Jon Hay reports.
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Between sleeping and waking, there is a middle phase: you realise it’s time to get up, but can’t quite bear to admit you need to get out of bed. London’s debt capital markets teams are in that zone. Brexit’s alarm has sounded, but few are eager to haul themselves into the cold air of Frankfurt or Paris.
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Some investment banks are beginning to move debt capital markets and bond syndicate bankers from London to the EU 27 because of Brexit, or are preparing to do so. Every bank is tackling the issue in its own way, but the common view that in the bond market only trading and sales people would have to move is now looking less tenable.
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One-time solar loan and lease securitizer Spruce Finance has been bought by HPS Investment Partners, a private debt fund manager that split from JP Morgan Asset Management in 2016.
