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  • Deutsche Bank has been mandated on Alpha Bank’s ‘Project Galaxy’ NPL sale, likely to be the first to use Greece’s new non-performing loan guarantee scheme known as ‘Hercules’. Like its compatriot Eurobank, the sale will include the spin-off of an NPL management division as well as the loan exposures themselves.
  • Europe will probably see an increase in rates of corporate defaults in 2020 as credit quality deteriorates. Moody’s expects the rate of defaulting junk-rated issuers to triple, pushing the figure above the long-term average after an extraordinarily quiet year.
  • Barclays’ head of corporate broking leaves — ESG finance academic joins Barings — Morgan Stanley ratings banker heads for exit
  • CMBS issuers are flooding the primary pipeline in the last weeks of 2019, with three deals totalling $3.6bn priced Wednesday afternoon and another four transactions queuing up to close out the year.
  • Angelo Gordon announced on Monday that it has hired a managing director to its commercial real estate debt group, overseeing originations and management of the firm’s loan investments in the sector.
  • GlobalCapital understands distressed debt buyers are seeking advice on how to target debt issued by intu Properties, especially its 2022 convertible bonds, now trading below 70, as the shopping centre company reels from the wave of restructurings and rent reductions by some of UK’s largest retailers.
  • Three banks sold an $810.5m single asset CMBS deal backed by a loan on the office tower at 55 Hudson Yards this week.
  • Continued low interest rates and the enduring strength of the US commercial real estate market will drive higher volumes of CMBS across all asset classes next year, said Kroll Bond Rating Agency in its 2020 outlook report.
  • Bank of America Securities is marketing its fourth European CMBS of the year, looking to securitize a loan financing a Finnish shopping centre and offices owned by Blackstone — by far the most active sponsor in the market this year. The deal will hit the market with its covenants already triggered, as the offices backing the deal are still under construction.