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Amadeus, the Spanish travel booking group, has signed a €1bn bridge loan to bolster its liquidity supplies through the coronavirus crisis, though some bankers expect the number of crisis loans being signed to shrink in the coming weeks. -
The reopening of Italian equity capital markets gathered pace on Monday night with two block trades with sellers across Europe expected to take advantage of the market conditions with further trades
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Deutsche Hypo took advantage of the public Pfandbrief market before the coronavirus crisis struck and since then has been busy issuing privately placed senior deals. Spreads have since tightened, which should help issuance bounce back. But ready access to favourable European Central Bank repo funding means supply will be restricted. Some parts of the German commercial real estate market are likely to be facing trouble too, but even so, Pfandbrief investors are well protected.
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The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is urging local officials to ease their Covid-19 lockdown measures, warning that some banks are now suffering delinquency rates in the mid-double digits on their small business loan books.
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Uralkali, the Russian potash fertiliser producer, signed a $665m pre-export facility (PXF) with a consortium of international banks, as lenders say that Russian borrowers seeking funding are finding pricing remains the main point of contention with lenders.
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The People’s Bank of China said it will buy Rmb400bn ($56bn) of inclusive loans given by banks to small and micro enterprises. The move can spur the country’s lenders to boost new lending to small businesses by as much as Rmb1tr.
