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Retail and services company initially targeted €100m with third transaction since 2022
Facility's maturity pushed out to 2031
Seventeen banks joined the underwritten 18 month deal
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Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group has formed an alliance with Jefferies and is providing the US investment bank with capital to pursue its ambitions in leveraged finance. -
Market participants are getting to grips with the EU’s plans for its Green Bond Standard, released last week. They are finding quirks in it that could help some issuers, discovers Jon Hay, but may make the regulation much more complicated.
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Sustainable finance specialists are increasingly concerned that companies' headlong rush to use environmental, social and governance-related loans risks weakening standards in the market and making it liable to accusations of greenwashing. Hannah Buttle, Jon Hay and Mike Turner report.
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Environmental, social and governance-linked loans are the only part of the loan market offering bankers some relief amid a broader drop in activity, said sources this week.
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Limited partners in private credit take a hands-off approach when investing in direct lending funds. But they need to pay attention.
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Direct lending funds are known for protecting their investments with leverage covenants, but the investors in these funds — known as limited partners (LPs) — may be overestimating how much protection they give, market sources warned this week. Silas Brown reports.
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