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  • China-based Kintor Pharmaceutical has kicked off bookbuilding for its Hong Kong listing, the latest in a stream of healthcare IPOs in the city. The issuer is targeting HK$1.86bn ($240.1m) in proceeds.
  • Argentina’s dollar bonds climbed again on Monday after the issuer extended the deadline for a restructuring offer, as a change in tone from the government offered slight hope that an agreement can be reached.
  • Santander has surged to the front rank of the EMEA syndicated loan market since the coronavirus crisis began — the bank made a deliberate strategic push.
  • The percentage of triple-C rated loans held in CLOs has tripled to 12% in the past three months, leading 21% of outstanding deals to fail at least one overcollateralisation test, according to Bank of America.
  • 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.
  • Emerging market loan volumes have declined further amid the panic and uncertainty that Covid-19 has plunged the market into. Loan bankers show little optimism and say that the second quarter will likely resemble the first.