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Tight spreads keep Middle East borrowers in bond market, and away from loans
Kazakh bank doubles the tenor to two years compared to previous deals
Tighter margin loan a 'sign of things to come' for infrastructure lending
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Indomobil Finance Indonesia has launched a $240m borrowing into general syndication, changing its approach to the fundraising after market sentiment improved.
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Healthy financial systems should not rely on short sellers and journalists to expose accounting scandals at large, publicly listed companies. Regulators and auditors should have been the heroes of the Wirecard story but their inability to see what others saw plainly paints them as the villains in this edition of German corporate noir.
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Irish insurer Ardonagh has refinanced its whole capital structure and funded the acquisitions of insurance brokers Arachas and Bravo with the largest ever unitranche loan from a group of direct lending funds, plus a $500m syndicated dollar PIK toggle note.
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Cavotec, the Swiss maritime engineering group, has refinanced its €95m revolving credit facility with a new bank line, a month after reporting a more than 20% hit to its revenues from the coronavirus pandemic.
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Borrowers across EMEA are pivoting further towards bilateral lending, which is proving a source of comfort as market conditions squeeze companies out of the syndicated loan market.
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Banks have shown quick interest in a new $500m loan from Indonesia’s Sarana Multi Infrastruktur (SMI), which is wooing lenders with a short tenor deal.
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