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Utilities metering company could refinance Schuldschein in coming months
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
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AAA Oils and Fats, the trading subsidiary of Singapore-based palm oil processor and distributor Apical Group, has returned to the offshore loan market for a $900m refinancing. -
The merger of the UK’s largest mobile phone operator, O2, with cable company Virgin Media, agreed on Thursday, will generate a £6bn financing need which the parties want to complete before the deal closes, expected to be in 2021 — and later on, it could lead to an IPO, say sources close to the deal.
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Macau casino operator SJM Holdings is in talks with lenders for covenant waivers on a HK$25bn ($3.2bn) facility, as it faces delays over opening a new resort in Asia’s gambling hub.
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Chinese conglomerate HNA Group has missed yet another payment, this time of $750m, on a loan it raised in 2016 to acquire Ingram Micro, a US information technology and products distributor.
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Green and sustainable bond and loan financing by companies has slowed as many firms have had to deal with urgent funding needs amid the coronavirus crisis. But three companies crowded into the bond market with green deals on Wednesday, achieving blowout demand — confirming that both issuers and investors remain keenly focused on green finance. Jon Hay and Mariam Meskin report.
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As Western societies begin to contemplate life returning to some semblance of normality, the financial industry is working out how best to balance the understandable desire to get back to how things were before the crisis with the very real threat of a new and more deadly wave of coronavirus brought on by a mass-return to offices. GlobalCapital’s Silas Brown spoke with Peter Openshaw, a specialist in immunology and virology and professor of experimental medicine at Imperial College, about the transmission of Covid-19 and how banks, investors and companies can reduce the risk of infection.
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