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Credit Suisse's investment bank is well placed for where the market is heading after the coronavirus pandemic, it said on Tuesday at an investor day. Its new global trading solutions (GTS) business unit may be key to future revenue streams. -
Transdev, the French public transport operator, has signed a Skr1.2bn (€117m) credit facility to buy low carbon buses in Gothenburg, Sweden’s second largest city. One of the commercial lenders arranging the deal has used European Investment Bank money rather than its own, to provide better financing conditions.
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InterContinental Hotels Group has negotiated a waiver and relaxation on its loan covenants for the second time in 2020, as its leverage threatens to plunge its rating into junk territory.
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Britishvolt, a start-up UK battery technology company, is looking at a range of funding options for a £2.6bn battery gigaplant site in the UK. A company spokesperson said that bank lending would make up just part of the financing.
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AstraZeneca, the UK pharmaceuticals company, has lined up $17.5bn of bridge loans from three banks to back its $39bn acquisition of US biotech firm Alexion.
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European gas pipeline companies such as Snam and National Grid have succeeded in presenting themselves as environmentally progressive partly by not reporting the largest part of their carbon dioxide emissions, according to a report published this week. Meanwhile, different parts of the energy industry are competing for political support and capital, as Europe strives to cut its greenhouse gas emissions 55% by 2030.
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