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The Republic of Ghana brought innovation to the emerging market bonds this week, by selling Africa’s first zero coupon international deal. But the “risky” trade ignited debate among bankers and investors after it attracted a smaller order book than expected and required generous pricing as debt sustainability concerns swirled. -
The European securitization market is seeing a faster pace of ESG deals but it needs to find more ESG-friendly assets before it can expect much more issuance. Peter Winning, portfolio manager and analyst in BlackRock's EMEA ABS team, spoke with GlobalCapital to outline how the world’s largest asset manager invests in ESG securitizations.
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Blackstone has mandated Morgan Stanley to help it syndicate a €373.4m last mile logistics securitization with assets in the Netherlands and Germany, as conditions improve in the CMBS market. The deal is set to be priced this week.
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Bank of America is betting on the performance of one of Germany’s biggest office buildings known as “the Squaire” by securitizing a loan secured on the airport-adjacent property, following Blackstone's sale of the building to AGC Equity Partners. Investors appear confident in the deal’s prospects, with initial price thoughts guiding the senior tranche at 120bp on Tuesday.
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Goldman-owned hotel chain B&B Hotels has launched a new loan deal for liquidity, in a test for the loan market's capacity for the next generation of rescue funding in the most distressed industries. The deal comes alongside an equity cheque of €80m.
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Noteholders in Deco 11 UK Conduit 3, a defaulted UK CMBS issued in 2006, have questioned the deal's dénouement, which saw special servicer Solutus, responsible for maximising their recoveries, sell the properties backing the deal to another company controlled by its owner, Lancashire property tycoon Tim Knowles.
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Together, the specialist mortgage lender, is bringing a unique UK securitization with a portfolio combining buy-to-let residential properties and commercial real estate, a first of its kind for the market.
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Investors are wolfing down a Blackstone UK logistics CMBS led by Bank of America and Barclays, and books have risen to more than £2bn for the £323m deal. The transaction could help rejuvenate a market scarred by the pandemic, syndicate bankers said.
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Hoist Finance is, unlike most of its competitors, a bank that is hoovering up non-performing assets, at a time when banking supervisors are laser-focused on cutting European bank exposures to those very same assets. That should be a problem for Hoist, whose whole business is based around purchasing NPL portfolios from other banks, but it’s a problem which it has been able to solve using securitization.
