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  • The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has ruled out granting a reprieve to the Libor benchmark, leaving the UK RMBS market to face transitioning legacy deals before the end of the year. That means that lenders will be grappling with the shift at the same time as borrowers will come to the end of Covid-19 payment moratoriums.
  • With one month to go of its 2019/2020 financial year, the International Finance Corporation has revised down its funding target.
  • KKR, Cinven and Providence Private Equity have launched the first post-Covid take-private LBO attempt, targeting Spanish telecommunications company MasMovil with a €3bn takeover offer at €22.50 a share, giving the company an enterprise value of around €5bn. Barclays, BNP Paribas and Morgan Stanley have underwritten the financing for the buyout.
  • Emerging market corporate downgrades have accelerated since the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis, which has raised questions about debt refinancing in the asset class.
  • The Financial Conduct Authority expects that a court case determining whether UK insurers have to pay out on business interruption claims as a result of Covid-19 will be settled by the end of July.
  • Deal arrangers said on Monday that banks would not be dissuaded from bringing new bond deals to the market, though spread levels have started showing their first signs of weakness following an extraordinarily strong month in May.