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Moody's uses market value CLO framework for its first Bitcoin bond rating

State of New Hampshire's innovative bond gets Ba2 rating
◆ Dutch issuer brings new euro benchmark at last, with social label ◆ Most recent euro line opened over 10 months ago ◆ Peers' bonds helpful to pricing given BNG's absence

NIB names Hellerup new treasurer

Head of funding for 16 years steps up at Nordic supra

Gulf banks face higher capital costs as war bites economies

Central banks in the region have stepped in with support and lenders are thought unlikely to let sub debt extend
◆ Dutch issuer brings new euro benchmark at last, with social label ◆ Most recent euro line opened over 10 months ago ◆ Peers' bonds helpful to pricing given BNG's absence
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  • Soltec, a Spanish solar tracker company, has refinanced its main syndicated bank loan, almost doubling the size of its bank facilities four months after the company publicly listed.
  • Ghana has secured two loan agreements, which are backed by the export credit agency of Italy, Sace. There is more room for the ECA-backed market to grow in the region, sources close to the deal said.
  • Fastned, the Dutch operator of charging stations for electric cars, has raised €150m to finance an expansion of its network across Europe, at the end of a wild week for tech and green energy stocks.
  • Chinese company Gangfeng Lithium Co is gearing up to tap equity investors for as much as HK$4.9bn ($632m) from a private placement of its Hong Kong-listed shares, as it looks to raise money to expand some of its projects and investments.
  • ABS
    Nuveen is breaking into the property assessed clean energy (PACE) market through its acquisition of Greenworks Lending. According to Nuveen, this is the outcome of a long-term relationship it has forged with Greenworks since 2017, when the lender issued the first ever C-PACE securitization with Nuveen as the lead investor.
  • UK Labour Party leader Keir Starmer has proposed a “British Recovery Bond” — a retail government issue that would be used to finance SME lending to help kick-start the economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. It can be tempting to dismiss such measures as political posturing, but there are some genuine advantages to the proposal, and it deserves its day.