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As a crucial middleman in the oil business, Trafigura has had to cope with concerns about the creditworthiness of some of its counterparts, and unprecedented volatility in the oil price that saw the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) contract turn negative at the end of April. Christophe Salmon, the company’s chief financial officer, explained how the company has coped with the crisis, and how its funding approach, based on deep banking relationships and a secured financing structure, proved resilient to the chaos around it.
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The Federal Reserve on Tuesday announced new details for its Term Asset Backed Lending Facility (TALF) and Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and is planning monthly updates for the duration of each program to identify borrowers, amounts borrowed and interest charged for loans backed by eligible ABS assets. -
The coronavirus crisis has severely disrupted the move away from Libor to the new recommended risk-free rates. But market participants will have to press on to meet the original deadline, with no extension on the horizon, according to a senior capital markets lawyer.
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The fallout from the Covid-19 crisis has touched nearly every economic and employment sector, from the largest corporations to the smallest businesses. The pain has prompted an unprecedented policy response aimed at rescuing economies and markets, and further measures are likely to come. US commercial real estate has been especially impacted, with commercial mortgage lending slowing dramatically, already struggling retailers going dark across the country and a likely rethinking of the use of space following a nationwide experiment in working from home.
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Bernardo Martinez, managing director of Funding Circle US, is moving back to PayPal to serve as the vice president of global business financing solutions.
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MUFG announced on Friday that is has hired Marc Lavine and Diane Wright as directors in the Japanese bank's leveraged finance sales group in New York.
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The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published its proposals for developing a 'simple, transparent and standardised' (STS) framework for synthetic securitization, endorsing better capital treatment and permitting the use of some excess spread for credit enhancement — a boost for the market if the package is approved by the European Commission.
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Europe’s SMEs are in trouble. The coronavirus pandemic has zeroed revenues and threatens their very existence. They last faced a big threat in the 2008 crisis when bank lending dried up and a recession took hold. Back then, securitization took a lot of the blame as the cause, but this time it offers a route to rescue.
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As Western societies begin to contemplate life returning to some semblance of normality, the financial industry is working out how best to balance the understandable desire to get back to how things were before the crisis with the very real threat of a new and more deadly wave of coronavirus brought on by a mass-return to offices. GlobalCapital’s Silas Brown spoke with Peter Openshaw, a specialist in immunology and virology and professor of experimental medicine at Imperial College, about the transmission of Covid-19 and how banks, investors and companies can reduce the risk of infection.
