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  • Several market players have said family offices in need of cash are struggling to come to terms with restrictions on companies that have taken state aid to survive the coronavirus pandemic paying dividends. This has made other forms of debt, such as Schuldscheine, with no bans on dividend payments, more attractive.
  • Indonesian telecommunications company Tiphone Mobile is restructuring its debt after failing to make payments on an offshore borrowing in March.
  • Investcorp's Credit Management business is one of the largest CLO issuers in Europe, with 24 deals under its belt, and a firm focus on the large cap, broadly syndicated market. GlobalCapital spoke to its boss, veteran leveraged finance investor and banker Jeremy Ghose, about how the coronavirus crisis has changed the LBO market, what CLOs will look like in the future, and the grim outlook for direct lending.
  • Investcorp said on Tuesday it had raised a new €318m loan fund to acquire "high performing loans at discounted levels" from large cap issuers in the European market. The fund will be leveraged and aim for returns in the mid teens.
  • UniCredit has appointed a new head of non-investment grade syndicate, after Carlo Fontana was promoted to global head of syndicate in March.
  • Barry Callebaut, the Franco-Belgian chocolate maker now registered in Switzerland, launched a Schuldschein on Tuesday offering investors tenors "upon request" alongside two, five and eight year maturities. Robert Bosch did that too, when it reopened the market last month. This is a feature that arrangers say will increase in a post Covid world.