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Investors pay little heed to alarming worsening of climate
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Whitbread, the UK hotel and pub company, amended and extended its revolving credit facility at around the same time as it stormed the bond markets with a blowout debut green trade. -
A $390m loan backing CVC Capital Partners’ acquisition of Myanmar’s Irrawaddy Green Towers (IGT) was abruptly put on hold this week after political turmoil rocked the country following a military coup. Pan Yue reports.
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Great Point Entertainment Income Trust, a UK investment trust engaged in film financing, launched a £200m ($273.54m) IPO on the London Stock Exchange on Wednesday.
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Companies with high carbon emissions are preparing for the risk that they could have to pay more to access capital markets, if investors and banks retreat from fossil fuel-heavy businesses, and even divest altogether — as Aviva has threatened to do. Some issuers will use investor relations drives and labelled financings, but ultimately they will have to find common ground with investors on how to transition to low carbon.
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Barclays has launched an €840m loan that forms the initial buy-out debt funding the takeover of UK supermarket chain Asda by the Issa brothers and TDR Capital. The bulk of the £3.5bn debt stack will follow in bond formats, with £2.25bn of senior secured and £500m of unsecured notes on offer.
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The Italian fashion house Tod’s has signed a €500m sustainability-linked loan, as environmentally conscious financing continues to infiltrate the infamously wasteful fashion industry.
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