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Specialist moves after 18 years in the market
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Bank of America has set up an EMEA ESG strategic council chaired and led by three senior investment bankers, to intensify its effort to reduce its carbon footprint and manage its climate risks.
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Two of the largest private placement investors have beaten the broader market to a deal with Biffa, the UK waste management company, after many investors expected the transaction to be widely marketed. More frequently, larger investors are going direct to borrowers with bilateral and club deals, undercutting the syndicated market.
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Russian potash fertiliser producer Uralkali has entered the syndicated loan market to raise a pre-export finance facility, according to loan bankers. The facility garnered a strong response from lenders, as they hunt for assets in a bare pipeline.
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Moody’s has torn up one of the shibboleths of the Schuldschein market — that its borrowers are worthy of investment grade ratings. On Wednesday, the rating agency said a number of borrowers from the car parts sector were overleveraged and not profitable enough. Investors appear to share these worries, but the Schuldschein market offers them little protection and there is no reliable secondary market for them to sell into.
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Sipartech, the French fibre optic infrastructure company, has signed a €180m syndicated loan that will pave the way for the company to invest “massively” over the next three years.
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Vietnamese education company Nguyen Hoang Group is making its offshore loan debut with a $62m deal.
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